Things are starting to pick up on the bloggerDev list. The new API is being refined. I posted to it this afternoon trying to justify (in my mind at least) the version change to 2.0.
A major release (2.x.x), IMHO, is justified when either (or both):
- Major revisions are made to the codebase or interface
- Backwards compatability is broken
Also, it’s okay to break backwards compatabiity every once in awhile. Otherwise we’d spend too much time supporting the 1.0 release than implementing new features. It does look like Steve is going to do his best to keep backwards compatibility with the Blogger API (1.0), tho it will definately be considered deprecated when the 2.0 API is finalized..