Current Status, Roadmap and General News - Updated 2020/05/09

[Schmmiiirc]

soon (and this year)

It'll make a tidy Xmas present, (for those of us who already have everything they need).

[Nut]

Don't rush, there is still a week after xmas this year

[nyktos]

Don't rush, there is still a week after xmas this year

We might need it!

[roberto]

Please, publish a sure data for the release of 0.7.2.
In my opinion, sentences like "caming soon" and "this year" should never be used, it sound as pure marketing. Good only for movie trailers.

[Zukero]

We can't be more precise.
The official and precise release date is always the same: "when it's ready".
We have a rough idea of what is left to do, so we're confident it won't be years. However, we all do this in what little spare time life gives us, so foreseeing the date of our next 2-hour timeslot for AT is hard. Let alone foreseeing the actual release date...

[nyktos]

That is a pretty rare comment from the team.
We don't like the idea of leading people on, or raising expectations without reason.
Especially with such a long time between official releases...

In the past few years, we refused to put a deadline on ourselves by answering ETAs.
With recent events, though, that tone has changed. (Even if only a little.)

Zukero was writing a response at the same time - so I'm gonna cut this short and say:
We appreciate your patience & hope you enjoy the efforts of the team & contributors.
(When the time comes)

[roberto]

ETAs.

Please, what do "ETA" mean?

[nyktos]

Estimated Time of Arrival or Estimated Time to Arrival.

[rijackson741]

We can't be more precise.
The official and precise release date is always the same: "when it's ready".
We have a rough idea of what is left to do, so we're confident it won't be years. However, we all do this in what little spare time life gives us, so foreseeing the date of our next 2-hour timeslot for AT is hard. Let alone foreseeing the actual release date...

To expand on this, we all have real lives. Families, jobs, etc. We cannot predict what RL will suck up in terms of time, so we cannot predict what time we have for AT development because families and jobs will always have to take precedence over AT. We do our best to keep you updated about where we are. We have an alpha version that is being tested by a select number of testers (old hands at AT). Next will be a public alpha that will be posted to these forums. Hopefully that gives you an indication that we are very close. No more content creation or other changes for the next release, other than bugfixes that turn up in testing. When the public alpha and any bugfixes from that are done, 0.7.2 will be released.

[Lady Drager]

Patience guys, don't make me quote the Jedi teachings!