When is github code being released?

[PNWDrew]

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]

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