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 Project status
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 The basic features are present and sufficiently stable. pretix has been in use for one event and
-sold a few hundred tickets so far. However, many features are missing and the admin UI is far from
-being complete, so we **do not recommend** production use yet.
+sold a few hundred tickets so far. There is still a bunch of features to come and there is probably
+still a lot of bugs in there, but we consider it stable enough that we are aiming to provide an
+upgrade path for all changes to come. If you want to use pretix in production, I invite you to
+send me an email so that I can notify you of changes and bugs that require your attention.
+
+We are still missing documentation, especially on the installation. This will come soon, as soon
+as we consider it stable enough to officially recommend third-party installations.
 
 
 Maintainer