It's been 1-SNAPSHOT for 4 years. Will step2 get a release version number soon?

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Tools like leiningen on Clojure won't let me build a release JAR that 
depends on a SNAPSHOT version.
2. Leiningen appears to more strict than Maven.
3. I instead have to workaround by depending on a dated frozen versioned 
snapshot of step2. Minor, but time-consuming, annoyance.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I'd expect that, after 4 years, step2 would have a version number like 1.0.2 or 
some such.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Uhm, 1-SNAPSHOT.

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 8 Jun 2012 at 5:00