Last week the n0 team did get together in one physical place. We've figured out a path to 1.0 that all of us are happy with!
Why does 1.0 matter for you? It is when we'll promise protocol & API compatibility into the future. To get there we'll have to break the wire protocol one more time, but we'll roll this out slowly in a backwards compatible way and only actually break the backwards compatibility in a release candidate. Aiming for sometime next year!