Hi levente
What I wanted to show is that the release of Pharo 1.0 was not urgent at all (DW and RW are both _more than a year_) until Squeak 4.1 came out. After the release of Squeak 4.1, Pharo 1.0 and 1.1 was released ASAP.
since you want real facts, I can tell you that being the responsible with marcus of release dates we do not take into account squeak releases and that we do not release as soon as possible. So I can ensure you that this is a false facts. We do not take that into account. You can believe us or not this is not that important. I just say it for the record. Now what we did was learning: 1.0 was too long mainly the beta phase because we were looking for a copy and paste bug that was randomly showing up. In such a case beta at the end was more "this is public but missing one bug fix". But since you like numbers you can count they way you want. After we are looking at logical moment to stop so that people can sync their applications. But there is always the tension with new features getting ready. We discuss milestones topics in the pharo sprint which was hold in the same time than WCRE. And we try to be features oriented. For example, we decided not to open 1.3 when 1.2 got beta and to focus on not integrating easy bug fixes to get stability. In 1.1 it was different since lot of fixes were accumulating. Stef