In a space where Khal "trademarked" the word SOONTM as an ETA for projects, it is hard to say for sure when something is to be released.
VERY SOONTM is not very reliable either, maybe NOWTM, unless something happens and thing get postponed for a few days.
As someone who understands a little bit more about software projects and their development cycles than the regular folks, I get where Khal's reluctance to give hard dates comes from. Because they are difficult to keep, even when they are rough estimates.
You can bang your head to a wall for week or more (figurately, of course) trying to fix what seems like the tiniest bug. And when you depend on others outside of your team (like Khal does), it's getting harder: wait for Apple staff to approve your mobile app (and convince them to do so), wait for CertiK to audit your smart contracts for months (this must be a pain in the ass, since they believe and almost are the center of the defi-verse right now), and who knows what else it's been going on.
And he's not the only one having this issue with date estimates. Blocktrades estimated HF26 could be done at the end of January. That's after a lot of work on HF26 was completed already. Now the estimates are for the end of March, but possibly April. I understand why that happened, but again, when you make a date estimate in the development world, things can happen to change it.
Same for Splinterlands. By the former roadmap, we should have had land expansion released in its initial form some time ago. But priorities changed, and I can't say I have a problem with the introduction of SPS, which made the old roadmap obsolete.
But let's get back to PolyCub.
I believe it was during the last AMA (if not, it was the one before) where Khal said CertiK gave him a hard date for the audit on PolyCub smart contracts - 14 February. Could be sooner, Khal said, but that's the hard date. Now, will CertiK keep their promise? They seem to be in the business of perpetual delays lately.
But if the audit comes on or by February 14th, Khal said PolyCub is ready to be released and has been for some time.
So maybe we should upgrade the release expectations for PolyCub from SOONTM to VERY SOONTM, and maybe even NOWTM around Valentine's Day.
We've only been waiting for it since late October last year. :)
Personally I wouldn't have a problem if PolyCub was launched without the external audit, but Khal wants it, because they modified many smart contracts and it looks good for potential external investors to have it at launch time.
Are you ready, if PolyCub finally joins the Leofinance family?
