I have a problem on my hands now. By DoomRL's version numbering and following the plan, DoomRL 0.9.9 should be next. However, there are quite a few changes planned for 0.9.9 some of them needing a lot work, and not being very visible. Hence, the development of 0.9.9 would take a lot of time, and expected release date would be around March/April (as far as any non-profit software release can be scheduled xP).
Seeing how active the community has become lately, I'm starting to doubt it's a good thing -- in such a long time people will loose interest again (however they might be back after 0.9.9 is released :)). Yet, I don't think it would be bad to release a midway release once I do it. It WOULD make it seem funny however ("Still not 0.9.9? LOLZOMG!").
Even if I do a pre-0.9.9 release I wonder which solution would be better : a quicker release in a week or two with a few features and several bugfixes with a 0.9.8.12 release scheduled) or just one "midway" release to 0.9.9 in a month or so...
Please vote!