I just registered, so the link may not work, but here is a good article to read for anyone going "wHy Is It TaKiNg So LoNg FoR tWo LiNeS oF cOdE?":
It might seem a reasonable question, but it makes some terrible assumptions: lines of code = effort lines of code = value all lines of c...
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I do agree that a more obvious status update is needed when it's apparent that an update isn't going to happen this week. Perhaps an edit to the first post?
The other thing I've wondered is, yes they're fixing bugs after the code refactor (or during?), but how come it isn't pushed to the beta branch anyway? I thought the purpose of the beta branch was to be as close to the developer's branch as possible and the unbuggy version would be the stable branch? Even though there may be bugs, as long as it launches, it should be moved to beta and if anyone complains, just tell them to gtfo out of the beta branch?