Anyone got an idea as the likely announcement.
LN is not some product that you "roll out" at some arbitrary date. Lightning Network is a network which already exists out there on bitcoin main-net which you can choose to use if you wanted right now.
there are many nodes/wallets made for it just like there are many nodes/wallets made for bitcoin. you choose one out of these and join this network and start using it.
https://github.com/lightningnetwork
https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning
https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair
https://github.com/LN-Zap/zap-desktop
but since these are new and have not been used as much, they may have bugs. so be careful if you decided to use them with real money/bitcoin.