Open source dependency management is a balancing act

During my career I have spent a lot of time packaging other people’s code, writing my own, and working on large software frameworks. I have seen projects that still haven’t released a stable version, never quite hitting 1.0, while others made 1.0 releases within months of beginning development, and then quickly moving on to 2.0, 3.0, etc. There is quite a variance in these release cycles, and this coupled with maintaining large projects can make things difficult.