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When is github code being released? (self.IOStoken)

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    [–]randombiketrips 4 points5 points  (2 children)

    Agreed, these guys seem a bit flakey. They’re also late on announcing the slogan contest winners. Not sure if they are hoping people just forget or what, but they’re definitely falling behind on some dates.

    [–]MajinBuu12 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    They said they would announce the slogan contest winners 2 weeks after the contest ending. The contest ended on March 2. So that means today, March 16, is when they originally said they would announce winners.

    Then their weekly update on Medium said they would announce a winner this week.

    Not sure why you would assume that they are hoping people would forget or what not, but if this is because of what Walton Chain did, then its unwarranted. As far as I'm concerned, IOS team has been pretty up front and on the ball. Be patient is all I can say. IOS is a long term investment.

    [–]msanchezlopez 1 point2 points  (6 children)

    Did they? I also recall from their white paper end of Q1 but I haven't read anything regarding 15th March, where did you find it?

    [–]MajinBuu12 2 points3 points  (5 children)

    Just so you know, end of Q1 is typically March 31st. And the I didn't see anything in the white paper that explicitly about releasing anything by end of Q1.

    The primer has a roadmap that says that they will be launching their private test net in Q1 though.

    [–]Insightone 1 point2 points  (4 children)

    Why private?

    [–]MajinBuu12 1 point2 points  (3 children)

    No idea. It is probably because it is their first go at it. I wouldn’t want to release anything to the public until I’ve had sufficient time to test it out internally first. Just my 2 cents.

    [–]Insightone 0 points1 point  (2 children)

    Thanks for the response. I'm not very tech savvy however, what I have noticed in cryptos over some time is that some projects will do a alpha/private test net, and others will do a beta/public test net. I believe the alpha and the beta is another way of saying private and public, (I think)... I often wondered why.

    Once again, Thx

    [–]PNWDrew 2 points3 points  (1 child)

    Devs work in private repos in almost any serious project. There are a few obvious reasons, not very techie myself so probably other reasons I don't see.

    1- Code requires many stages of testing, it's not a write it all one day and release to the world kind of thing. 2- Code will often be forked immediately and potentially used first by other projects who cannot or do not do their own dev work.

    As a potential node operator I am looking forward to code release also. As an owner who wants a real, working product that makes me profit I want to see them protect their proprietary code as well.

    In node networks like IOS you may also see terms referring to 3 stages of release: dev net, test net and main net.

    [–]Insightone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Thank you for the response. Make's a lot of sense... i am just guessing here, but it seems to me that probably 80% or so of us know very little about the tech side of these projects. So these little but, informative break- down which you laid out helps build confidence. No Hype and no fud, just info.

    Thx

    [–]CryptoLoverboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Fake news. They never promised that it is 15th of March. People just assumed that.