Fine, you got me on "release" vs "release candidate." Still, it is clear that the plan is to release Ember as a 1.0 without Ember.Data (it would be very strange

Fine, you got me on "release" vs "release candidate." Still, it is clear that the plan is to release Ember as a 1.0 without Ember.Data (it would be very strange to add something of Ember.Data's scope into a release but not have it in the RC). I'm aware that Ember.Data is considered separate. The entire point of my post was that I believe this is a mistake.