Spring has arrived early in Munich. While hibernating I've had almost nothing to do with coding, and I've failed to reply to so many e-mails that I should probably be excommunicated from the open source world.

My penance has begun with an effort to catch up on those mails and patches. I've just made release 0.4 of WebUnit which adds HTTPS support courtesy of a patch from Oliver Rutherfurd. (That's the first release since last July, I think.)

If anybody reading this sent me mail, I apologise; you almost certainly haven't had a reply yet. I could claim a disk crash, but that would be a disservice to my ThinkPad.

Release numbers are a strange thing. It seems apparent that there is no logical scheme for numbering releases over the lifetime of a piece of software, other than that release numbers should usually increase as time goes on.

For some programmers, I imagine that release numbers are proportional to the length of the feature list, the number of lines of code, or even the number of bugs.

Not for me. For the record, my release numbers are not particularly intended to converge on 1.0. What would 1.0 mean anyway? Instead, I earn release number increments. Usually I only earn '0.1' at a time, but sometimes I feel like I've earned more, so I bump the release number by 0.5.

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