We are often asked, when Things will be released or when certain features will be finished? It is generally not a good thing to publish detailed roadmaps. But I wanted to offer a glimpse into the future and talk about our general approach.
Today we released the first update since we posted the alpha version. It has taken us an unusually long time for reasons completely outside of the actual development of Things. From now on we plan to release updates on a roughly weekly basis. But we are not going to bother users with small bug fixes or technical changes that have little effect on actually working with Things.
There are two contradictory aspects to publishing software as work in progress. On the one hand, we want as many people as possible to have access to Things. On the other hand, we still want to be able to respond to feedback in a useful way. After all, why publishing unfinished software if not for early feedback?
But now, we have much improved ways of communicating and are confident to be able to provide frequent updates. We expect to have completed sending invites in a week or so, and shoot for opening up access to Things sometime in January 2008.