As far as the delay goes, it's about syncing time/development. I can assure most that what needs to be done was timely executed despite any kinds of reasons was encountered. There are just people in this project that sacrificed everything they have for Fusion, and I'm one of them. We don't ask for payments. We ask for patience due to heavy load of chasing back development speed.
Then again, we also need to question that should Fusion faced heavy acceleration, many developers would be left out. At the end, nobody will be able to answer users questions. Mind that, out of 10 major CMS, Fusion yet remained one that possessed relatively quite high ratings in terms of support quality and feedback. If one would look at a problem and ask any of the senior developers here any questions - most knew the entire CMS inside out and could give an answer right away. Now, changing all these will require everyone to update themselves and follow the development very closely.
Our devs simply can't be missed out, and then come back like 3 version laters and still think it will be the same and still be supported. That is also a reason we go for 7.03 before 8, because we will all land in nightmare when looking at the code changes (except for the author himself of course). Then we'll be facing new problems as well.
It's a double edged factor here. If we discuss too much, things may never be done. If we don't, many will not know what actually landed.
We cannot simply be too fast, nor too slow. Everything has its pace. To simply put it, if there are 50 hard-core developers working on the commits here today, we'd be ten times faster in coming up with anything. But as far as today is, many projects have been made available to users and what I can do as here is to ensure that our codes are well preserved and wait for contributing developers to actually work on this project. This is a collaborative effort, unique nonetheless.
Right now, we're gonna push 7.03 as fast as we can, and as stable as we can. Upon that done, I will make my personal goal to push out V8 RC1 within this year as well. I hope that gives many insights to the Version 8.00 release date - and as to when, I cannot guarantee. It all boils down to a time/development variable. I hope that gives the insights many are missing at this point of time.
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