It applies to a lot of software actually, I've found that one of the implications of developing in the open is that people feel free to take whatever version th

It applies to a lot of software actually, I've found that one of the implications of developing in the open is that people feel free to take whatever version they want and treat it the same as a release. The DVCS appears to have exacerbated this because people so often just attach their scripts to pull from "master" instead of respecting tagged releases. I've more than once discovered an in-development version of a library I'm working on appear as a package in Debian, for example. Suddenly I'm feeling responsible to maintain backward compatibility with an unreleased version because it's now "released" as far as users go. Of course what happened is that I asked the maintainers to remove it and then they never packaged any new versions of my software because of the interpersonal friction it caused.