V2 beta Feb-21-2010 available now

 From:  Dan (CORNYSH)
3338.8 In reply to 3338.4 
>Hi Rob, yeah groups have been postponed until v3.

Michael, like the inset tool and good to hear that v2 is nearly done. As I was only here for the very end of v2 beta, I am curious as to how you will approach v3. Perhaps I got the wrong end of the stick but it seems like you had a pretty open beta for v2 for almost a couple of years and for a lot of that time it was close to production-ready.

Will it be something like:

-V2 docs completed, v2 ships
-Holiday!
-Planning for next version
-Six months later, v3 rolling beta starts
-New functions added bit by bit over 6-12 months
-New functions frozen
-Final bug fixes, tidy up docs and ship v3

Or will it be more conventional sort of approach i.e. we wait 18 months and suddenly one day a fairly complete v3 appears with a frozen feature set and the package is shipped after 3 months of beta testing?

Regards
Dan