Joking, surely?
What have you seen that makes you think there's a firm position
The FDAC doesn't yet have a final design. It's design is to a certain extent dependent on the design (results) of the mdac2 ... which doesn't yet have a final design. And which is also effectively the mule for the FDAC.
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Que sera, sera as Doris Kappelhoff has sung.
The interesting journey continues.
Sit back; enjoy
Bring on the cultists! The belief is strong with these ones...
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It would be nice to get some expectations set tho, and from a person who is both experienced and accomplished in this regard I don't think it's unreasonable.
Anyone on the project will by now know that slippage has been the most significant experience with ambiguity about what's actually happening coming in at second place. Any journey that is described so often as nearly there can be wearing and feels like much longer when it's not true, so an order of events would be nice.
We all want the journey to be enjoyable, fruitful and beneficial for all involved else John would not have got the investment to follow his passion, but a little transparency would be appreciated. No reasonable person is going to be upset about more slippage if they feel they are involved in the experience rather than at arms length without acknowledgement.
We are all fans of John, so I speak (as do others, very much including LarsS from what I have seen) with kind intent.
This is of course more like what I meant...