First of all, want to say great, that it has been your decision to complete Dolphin 7 and follow it through to the end. This is all that was asked for, is that you complete one version get it as stable as possible, then move on into the next level of development.

Though, your supposition "I am talking about numbers only there", again is misleading. Here is why, as we all sat waiting on bugs to be fixed, they would be slotted for this version or that version. Most everything it seemed see more was being targeted to Dolphin 7.1 according to Trac. Thus with your announcement that you were scrapping 7.1, that absolutely states that all bugs that had been reported for Dolphin 7.0, and were scheduled for Dolphin 7.1, would no longer come to pass. That stated, you had already mentioned that you were not developing on or for Dolphin 7.0 any longer, that you had released 6 updates, and there were no plans to continue developing on 7.0. So when all things that were reported for 7.0 and scheduled for Dolphin 7.1, then we anxiously awaited 7.1, only to wake up one day and realize your new found plan was to scrap Dolphin 7.1 for the new and improved Dolphin 8.

Maybe the term mislead was under a different definintion at some juncture, but typically when you say you are scrapping something, that means you are done with it, its going in the garbage can, its no longer of any use.

Andrew, as i sit here thinking about this, i am not raising this concerns to cause dispute, but just trying to figure it all out. There was great debate following this announcement literally begging you to finish Dolphin 7. So if you are now on the path to completing Dolphin 7, then that is great. That is what the community asked for.

The underlying fact of the matter, is the announcement to 'scrap Dolphin 7' was something you provided. and at that time, there was no this is in number only iteration.

but to no end, glad you are deciding to complete Dolphin 7 while you build Dolphin 8.