Development Update #3 – June 12, 2016We’ve made a lot of progress on development over the last week and we’ve updated the roadmap to try and get everything in place in time for certain Microsoft events with as little change to existing release target as possible.
As mentioned last week resources in terms of developers are scarce and we don’t want to spend a lot of SYS dev funds at these prices to on board something equivalent to full time help. We are talking with a few developers we’ll try to leverage as supplemental support but in planning we’re still operating as if its just the two internal devs we have at present. These same resources are needed to setup the company entity which we need in order to proceed expanding our relationship with Microsoft. We had some tough decisions to make because the Microsoft conference is coming very soon, and Syscoin 2.1 is also very close to being ready for release with several new features.
To best utilize resources we’ve decided to scope back the Blockmarket release for June to a pretty simple “lite” version that simply shows balance, and allows users to send and receive in the same simple login/setup/deployment framework that the full Blockmarket will use. We’re doing this just to satisfy the Microsoft requirements in time for the conference. The plan was a full Blockmarket beta for June. Because a beta won’t work for our Microsoft endeavors we’ve scaled back to a lite, non-beta release for June with the full release still planned for late July as previously planned. With the additional resources gained from scoping back the June release of Blockmarket we’ll increase the testing effort behind Syscoin 2.1, and be able to get the company setup. We still plan on releasing Blockmarket lite to the public sometime before the end of June. This plan gives us the best shot of being part of the MSFT conference, the requirements of which we just learned about last week.
Assuming all testing goes smoothly on Syscoin 2.1 we’ll be releasing that June 26th, 2016. Syscoin 2.1 will be a mandatory update and we’ll coordinate with exchanges and miners around its release. By holding off on the full Blockmarket release until after Syscoin 2.1 we’re also maximizing efficiencies as it relates to Blockmarket dev- because the new Syscoin release introduces many new commands and modifies some existing commands if we release Blockmarket ahead of 2.1 we’d incur work just weeks later on the back end of the 2.1 release to deal with these changes. The full Blockmarket release is targeted for July 24th, 2016 and will include some of the features introduced in 2.1. We’re not sure if there will be a beta of the full Blockmarket at the moment- we’ll reasses our resources in July to make that decision.
These hard target dates allow us to better coordinate our PR efforts. In conjunction with our PR partners we’re already working on marketing around 2.1 and the full Blockmarket release- we’ll be running our own efforts in parallel with those of our PR partners to ensure the best results; Blockmarket being the larger of the two releases/efforts. All of these updates have already been applied to our
roadmap.