clear words, i think. i as customer think the same. end of!
lol .. in all fairness .. it's not an entirely clear reply depending on the information someone might be looking for .. and more importantly .. it took a couple of months to get that answer and it currently resides on the 5th page of a closed discussion that has been pushed back to the 2nd page of this forum!
I really agree that it isn't necessarily our business either though .. aside from those who know Kier well enough to really hope he is well (I don't have any personal interaction with him at all .. but I've followed these and vB's forum enough over the years to feel like I know him a bit .. and on that most important note I wish he is well)!
I also understand why we aren't getting more details .. frankly .. his personal life isn't our business.. if it's personal then it's just that .. or if it has something to do with the lawsuit then it's in their obvious interest not to discuss it openly until the matter is legally settled .. however .. what is our business is if he's gone long enough for it to affect the expected development of the product we've purchased (and who most of you are paying for ongoing support for). At the moment I think it's fair to say that there are no serious issues with xF as a product ... And as of yet Xen 1.2 isn't late at all as we've been told to expect to get our hands on a beta sometime before June 30th .. and more importantly to me personally .. that it will include a mobile skin (as I first paid for my xF to show my support .. but I'm still waiting to evaluate xF's mobile skin before choosing a final forum solution for restarting my forum) .. which is something that was told was coming for a very long time and is late in overall development compared to when most of us looking for it reasonably expected.
So I suggest everyone just take the unofficial official statement as I have to be:
(Feel MORE than free to correct me if you KNOW for sure the following to be wrong)
- Kier temporarily isn't around at the moment for non-xF related reasons .. but everything is still going according to plan on schedule and you can expect the first Beta of xF 1.2 on time with all the features (and likely more .. lol) that were told would be with it before the end of June 2012! *IF* the long term status of the development team changes (to me Mike and Kier are BOTH very important as a team), then an announcement with more details will be made on if/how it will affect the longer term development of xF!
That being said .. it would certainly be helpful to most here to get a little more information .. such as:
1. Now that Q2 is here can we get a slightly more refined/updated release of xF 1.2?
(even if it's something like "if all goes according to plan probably late May or early June")
More importantly to some a very fair question remains:
2. What is the status of the Resource Manager? Can we at least know if the release is planned before, at the same time, or after xF 1.2 goes beta .. or if it's really independent but to expect more information in the next x to y weeks or months, or won't be released until xF 1.2 is out of Beta/RCs)?
But no matter what I expect this final question to be answered:
3. What is the full detailed feature list for xF 7.0 and what the exact release date!
PS .. It's not my intention to stir anything up with this post .. if anything it's just the opposite .. I'm getting a bit tired seeing the same old things over and over again .. and to be honest .. both sides need to remember that we're actually on the same side .. and that maybe if everyone communicated a little more clearly and were also a little more understanding .. then maybe we could avoid many of these sorts of discussions in the first place!
