I have been a witness for over one year now. With this I have got some experience managing my server, migrating, upgrading and giving it general maintenance.
By the way, care to vote for me? Click here and vote me for witness on HiveSigner Or use your preferred signing tool to vote me:
https://vote.hive.uno/@igormuba
My Hive witness server is updated and ready for the Hard Fork 26, but when is it? As a witness, not even I can say.
Most of the development of Hive is, apparently, done by @blocktrades so they basically lead the development, although there are other few developers (I am willing to help if I can get some training, I looked at the code and it is not easy to get started with helping).
On their latest post, over 3 weeks ago, they have said that it would take a minimum of 2 weeks to delivery the software to witnesses (like me) and exchanges.
Personally I am ready for the upgrade, but as a witness and not a core developer (I develop Hive based apps, but not the blockchain itself) I have no idea about when the upgrade will take place.... I am in the dark trying to find information.
Let's get ready for the hardfork 26, whenever it comes.