Is the community getting tired of maidsafe

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@Bacobob

Are you kidding 7 Alpha stages ? wasnt it beta after Alpha2.

Found the update from the horse’s mouth (thanks @frabrunelle for showing me)

@maidsafe

Our current thinking is that once we have confirmed the stability of the soon to be launched Test 15 (some may have expected 12d), this will become Alpha 2. The Alpha 2 network will supersede all existing networks. We’re planning to deprecate both Alpha 1 and Test 11 towards the end of this week. These networks have helped us test the client APIs extensively and have encountered a few issues over the last few months they’ve been running. Some from our bugs like the Crust one we noticed this week and some from network outages on these networks which weren’t suited to handle churn well. As you know we have taken down TEST-12c today and are doing soak tests on our fixes over the weekend. If this all goes well over the weekend, we would expect TEST-15 very soon afterwards. There is one more small fix we may apply tomorrow, but testing on that continues for now.

List of features for the upcoming alpha networks:

Alpha 3

• Mutable Data and authenticator pattern (with the new SAFE API)
• SAFE Browser JavaScript APIs and Node.js SDK along with example apps, tutorials and documentation
• Vaults from home (continued, more people should be able to run more nodes and on more platforms)

This will be a huge testnet for the community. We will work extremely hard with many Engineers on our forum daily to get feedback on the APIs, help with apps and more. This will be the Alpha we settle the client-side APIs so we expect huge debates and help from all the usual suspects and beyond. As a company many of our Engineers are just too busy to get too involved, but this changes in Alpha 3 as this is the real engage moment. We will have the ability to quicky alter an API, test it out and let others play with it. This will be critical to the future of all of the network and the networks developers. It should be an exciting period.

We anticipate having several mutable data testnets confirming that the implementation and documentation is good enough.

Beyond Alpha 3

• Data republish (ability to upgrade the network without deleting all the data) will likely be the focus.
• A security audit of the network
• Test safecoin
• Real-time network upgrades
• Network validated upgrades

In between alpha networks, there will be many testnets. Each alpha will focus on a few major components. Major features will be added one by one in testnets.

Once all those things are in place, there may be other alpha networks, or we may move to beta. With the team constantly expanding, there are a lot of reasons to believe we can be more managed in this rollout.

A few other things are happening in parallel (e.g. in Crust, we are making changes to allow more computers to run vaults from home, to increase the amount of people on the network as well as security and efficiency).

Also, you can expect to see an increase in activities for documentation in the next weeks and months. We will also look again at a simpler clearer roadmap. Not a mini project this time, but a helpful and friendly simple roadmap.

Remember this is not set in stone but best expectation.