CakePHP major minor version

I was discussing this with a dear friend, and fellow CakePHP enthusiast, the other day, and I felt like writing about it in my blog..

Over the past couple of years or so, CakePHP v1.2 has been developed, and while it isn’t officially ready for production use, I have to say I have found little to no problems with it, that would prevent me from using it.. So I am.. But what baffles me, as well as my friend, is the fact that this is a minor version change.. Going from v1.1 to v1.2 is supposed to be a minor version jump, and perhaps it is, but the number of changes, and the importance of these changes, are astronomical. I recently installed OpenOffice.org v3.0, after having used the v2.x range for a while, and I thought to myself, that this is actually the magnitude of changes found in that minor version update in CakePHP..

This, of course, beckons the question.. If so much goes into a minor release.. What sort of changes would then go into a major release? I’ve looked at the CakePHP Roadmap and it doesn’t even have a v2.0 yet.. There’s the v1.2, and some Bakery versions, as well as the usual Manual stuff, so I guess we won’t really know what the plans are for v2.0.. Unless of course we ask..