Dolphin 7 development. Update. (updated)

The big "renovation" is taking more time than we all expected, just like any renovation always does. Be sure that we are working our butts out to make the release happen (weekends and after-hours included).

So, without any promises, but now a lot more confidently... here's the plan:

- Private Preview (limited) - this Friday or next Tuesday. "Limited" means that only a few people will be given a link, but please don't fret if you don't get one. We just try to limit the flow of feedback at the first stage. This preview is really too raw.

- Public Preview - 7-10 days after the Limited Preview. At this stage we plan to apply most of the planned changes and would be able to actually read and comprehend your comments.

- Alpha - 7-10 days after the Public Preview. At that stage we plan to have 95% of the functionality implemented and tested. Final list of minor changes will be collected before going to the beta stage.

- Beta - 5-7 days after Alpha. Beta is going to be feature-final, so no more new things after the Beta is out.

- RC and RF. It is nearly impossible to predict how much time it could take to move from Beta to RC and the RF. You know how it is - testing, fixing, documentation, upgrade script, site update, etc. It won't take months, but I'd expect at least 2 weeks until we give the Dolphin 7 a "stable" marker.

All in all we're looking at about 5-6 weeks of rush, stress and fun until the the BIG day.

I hope you guys are patient and excited enough to let us do this right, really RIGHT this time.

UPDATE: Tomorrow we'll be showing it to selected few. They are really very few, but PLEASE understand - everyone will see it really soon. It is still an early build, with many features planned/under development/not visible yet. So, hopefully we'll do this within Tuesday (PST).