• theshatterstone54
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    7 days ago

    So… there will be Alphas 5 and 6. And we got Alpha 4 a week late, compared to the old release schedule of the last Thursday of every month. And a lot of the things that were meant for Alphas 3 and 4 were pushed back. I hope that System76 doesn’t encounter more features that push things back further (the way VRR seems to have done), for their own sake. That way, they can keep up a lot of hype around the Betas and the release of Epoch 1.

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      7 days ago

      That is normal in software development. System76 thinks that they will reach v1.0 early next year, but in reality, this won’t mature for another 2 years or so.

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        At their self-imposed rates of 1 new Alpha at the last Thursday of every month, and assuming only 2 Betas, and assuming they can get Alpha 5 done in December, we’re looking at the end of April for release, though I’d realistically expect Epoch 1 at the end of June or July, or maybe even after that.

        This is normal in Software Development.

        I know. I’m a CS student, but they are still in a pretty early stage of their project and don’t have anywhere near the technical debt or size of projects like Plasma or GNOME, and as such, I think they should still be able to keep on going at a pretty fast pace.

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      And we got Alpha 4 a week late, compared to the old release schedule of the last Thursday of every month

      i bet most likely due to the US holiday. 28/11 and 29/11 were the Thanksgiving and Black Friday holiday in US