I would release a 0.7.1 to address the renaming and use 0.8 for new features. So, make a feature freeze at the moment - until 0.7.1 is released.

Am Dienstag, 9. Oktober 2012 09:27:22 UTC+2 schrieb Stefan van der Walt:
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Tony Yu <tsy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That said, I'm inclined to merge PR #351 and PR #360.

PR #351 looks good to me.

> Are you planning to release both 0.7.1 *and* 0.8? Is there any reason why we
> shouldn't just point users to 0.8?

Some people will still try to install "scikits-image", which currently
gives 0.7--broken on OSX.  As such, it would be nice to at least have
a working 0.7.

Stéfan