as bytemaster said: If we wait to release it when no "bugs" are present, we will never release it!
Time will not stop at 13 October, we will make more updates after this date, nothing wrong with that!
There is a HUGE gap between 'perfect' and 'alpha' quality - right now we have an 'alpha' quality product, which may not be fit for purpose.
can't agree more. If there are some bugs (crashes, UI problems, etc...) we, the already existing BitShares community, won't mind that much (I know I won't), but people from the outside, to whom we've told that 2.0 is going to be better in all aspects than 0.9.x, more stable, better UI, etc. will probably think that we're a bunch of incompetent, under-delivering guys when they see that their wallet crashes not even 1 day after installing it. As discussed at length in other threads, it's all about perception, and I'm really worried that 1 week is not enough to fix everything left that's required to give you that "wow!" effect that we promised.
There are a *lot* of people watching for the 2.0 release, and I think "better safe than sorry" should be a guiding principle as to when to do the release. And we should talk about it now, because if current delegates have to downgrade to 0.9.2 (or upgrade to 0.9.4 that removes the hard-fork with stopped block production after the deadline), then we should be preparing for that already.