Not so much obsession as convention. Generally versions 0.x - 1.0 are the alpha and beta releases, with 1.0 being the first "stable" release. Obviously there ar

Not so much obsession as convention. Generally versions 0.x - 1.0 are the alpha and beta releases, with 1.0 being the first "stable" release. Obviously there are hundreds of projects that follow a different schema, but it's used enough that it has stuck. One solution if you want to keep your versioning style would be to annotate them as stable or development, possibly with a short paragraph explaining that version 0.0.3 is in fact bugfree/feature-complete/ready for use in production/etc.