Safenet progress questions

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Roadmaps are always used whether we want to accept it or nor. There are several here

  1. SAFE network roadmap

  2. MaidSafe rollout roadmap

  3. MAidSafe growth roadmap (Partnerships, marketing etc.)

So SAFE roadmap should be clear by now I hope. It’s Alpha 1 2 3 … Beta 1 2 … etc. then release. The components are mostly known and includes safecoin. In terms of the schedule and component parts of each release, we just don’t know. We do, however, update every week with what we do know. This is influenced by the team size at that time, feedback on released code/API’ etc.

So SAFE roadmap is what it is, in release stages and going though a schedule we hope to tighten to a more waterfall approach. RFC’s play a huge part here and allow folks to see what’s coming and what’s implemented in almost real time.

The MaidSafe roadmaps though are very well mapped out in the business plan that investors get when they want. That is pretty detailed and is a business plan. Like all such plans we know it will not go that way, but at this time it would be what we expect to happen.

In terms of growth, well many now know we are starting with a Hong Kong joint venture, all going well and will be expanding this as we move on. That will be determined by who we meet and talk to as well as the influence of the code base. i.e. right now we can supply a substantial amount of tech and skill to satisfy the requirements of such deals.

@nicklambert @Viv and I have talked much of this roadmap issue, especially recently and I have said to remove it, we have all agreed on this now. So the current dev road maps will be removed from the site where we will focus people on the current release (Alpha/Beta etc.) and weekly progress reports that are made. Folk can then see for themselves the progress or lack, thereof.

I am very focussed now on MaidSafe pushing the SAFE network out and spending time on growth and fulfilling those business plans. In parallel we will continue as quickly as possible to get more folk involved in the API’s and development opportunities we are creating.

TL;DR The roadmap is the release schedule, it will itself improve as we can define what is in the pipeline more clearly. This will coincide with the next several weeks work on finalising the API examples/tutorials and vaults running form peoples houses. The latter probably taking the form of more testnets before it combines with release core API’s etc. (client code),

The weekly report should I hope make this all acceptable and help people understand how and why any investments and commitments are used by us to progress the released network. If we get the team built fast then delivery will be faster, if we get great feedback it will also go faster.

I think, different from many projects/products we will not have the network working and not release, waiting on some marketing “time” etc. It will happen on the very day we are happy it’s complete and tested enough for release and everyone on this forum will see that coming, I hope they currently do.

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