Guys, I am all for taking as long as necessary to develop something and getting one's ducks in a row, even if it takes a year. In the ugly world of virtual currencies there is very little that can be done to assess devs and whether they are above board or not. One of the few things that can be looked at is actions and if a promise is made if the promise is kept. I am therefore a strong believer in less is more. If a dev is working on something then dont give a fixed deadline unless you have the resources to deliver - project management 101. Rather talk about in the next few weeks or couple of months or when it is ready or keep a low profile. If you want to be loud, fine, but have the resources in place to make good then on what you say.
Lets look at 2 scenarios:
Dev A:
Ill deliver feature X by next Monday. On Monday the dev posts his dev did not have access to the internet. By Wednesday he is sick. By Friday who knows? People get anxious and start to ask questions. Dev finally delivers by the next Monday.
Dev B:
Ill deliver over the next few weeks or so. Monday in 2 weeks the dev delivers and makes a post with the links. Everyone claps hands for the dev for delivering.
Both achieve the same delivery date but dev B has also achieved some credibility whereas dev A has lost credibility.
I re-iterate that I would like to see warp succeed, but I have lost twice recently with coins where the dev starts with excuses after making promises and it turned out to be a duck. Apologies for saying if something looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and walks like a duck that it probably is a duck. It is possible though that it could not be a duck, but statistics in virtual currencies are heavily against that. I would appreciate if the dev can work on his delivery statements and rather make statements when the delivery is ready for release or then if he decides to make a promise, to keep to it. It is not my coin though so I have no say in how dev wants to run things. It is important to make sure that there is nothing that could make the public think it is a duck (perhaps mistakenly), especially if the coin has the potential to get onto a big exchange like Polo and if the dev team wants to be taken seriously. This actually makes me think that I tweeted Polo to consider warp a few hours before the promised release which then did not happen (which in hind-sight was premature). This should be enough evidence that my intentions are pure.
I read your reply and I am sure of your good intentions. However, I really think most of you are making a big deal out of this beta testing release.
Yes, it makes sense that I am judged according to other devs performances, since you have nothing else to compare to. But you are questioning my credibility for deciding to postpone the launch of non-working binaries. I have announced in good faith - not to be loud. And when I did, I had working binaries for both Linux and Windows. Since then, small changes were made to the code in order to protect WARP, and the free use of the wallets' VPN function. Shit happens and windows has a hard time compile the new code.
Noise is something I don't want to bother much with. I am the same guy that ran a successful ICO with no escrow, the same guy that is doing what he promised from off the beginning. If I have to compromise a few days in order to succeed, I will.
Again, this is just a public beta testing. Untested software works like this. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. It's not my fault if this beta release is being hyped. Being that the case, you should demand explanations from whoever hypes it, and not from me.