Frustrating having a decentralized system when there's nobody managing timelines, milestones, and delivery dates.....
Plenty of people are. but you choose to ignore
I'm not familiar with the concept of choosing to ignore something. Why would I choose to ignore something I am a fan of? I dont even know if these processes exist. If they do, then awesome! Why would I ignore that? I'd feel happy.
and insult the people working on the project, for which you don't pay
I haven't intended to insult anyone. Dev team members have publicly stated that there has been a lack of progress, direction, and organization partially in part due to ongoing arguing, and other issues. I admit I have been a little grumpy publicly about the seeming lack of progress and delivery dates, but I promise you - it has been 1,000% based on the comments I heard Gavin make at the Amsterdam conference, and other insinuations that there is a lack of direction. Honestly its none of my business. So I apologize if it ever seemed like I was insulting anyone individually. You're quite right that I am not in the trenches and therefore should not comment.
As for not paying - I planned to put quite a bit of money into the Lighthouse project - assuming I understand what it is (paying for core Devs). I have donated anonymously to Gavin, Andreas, LTB/Adam Levine and others I feel should be downright wealthy because of all their hard work. I invested/donated $10,000 to the Ethereum project as well. Nevertheless, paying for things wouldn't warrant insulting the dev team. But I have "paid".
No fork is currently proposed.
Could you expound on this? I opened this thread to get more information.
My original question was whether Sidechains are coming, and if so when.
To further explain: The only reason I even made this thread is because I repeatedly see people talking about Sidechains as the coming savior in Reddit and elsewhere. A lot of people are under the impression that it's the next item up for release. And a lot of discussions / arguments / conversations are being based on the upcoming availability of them. It finally struck me that I've seen zero mention of them from anyone "official" and I wondered if people are making wrong assumptions. I don't see any direct responses above - GMaxwell you would've been the one guy who probably could've provided some direct info. So Im still somewhat in the dark. But its important for the community to know that this thing they hope for, isn't even slated for development or release....
-B-