More seriously, do you have any idea why? If so, then extending your reasoning it should next friday or the following one and so on...
I've no idea why a Friday seems more popular than any other day of the week.
As to why today (Friday, 29 June) would be a likely candidate for new firmware, it's linked with the "Skype in H1" announcement - today is the last Friday in H1.
However as Skype may be a seperate download and not part of the firmware (and Skype is likely to be delayed beyond H1), all bets are now off!
Thanks, though "expected by the end of the first half" is not exactly the promise that coheed22 was asking for, it does atleast make me feel less crazy for thinking i read that. thanks
Blimey...so no word from anyone yet eh?
I really hope it's not a firmware upgrade...
I haven't had time to get me a card to boot off from so I don't lose everything I've installed over the past 4 weeks...
I've no idea why a Friday seems more popular than any other day of the week.
As to why today (Friday, 29 June) would be a likely candidate for new firmware, it's linked with the "Skype in H1" announcement - today is the last Friday in H1.
However as Skype may be a seperate download and not part of the firmware (and Skype is likely to be delayed beyond H1), all bets are now off!
I've no idea why a Friday seems more popular than any other day of the week.
I've worked in a few software companies where Friday releases are more common:
Only limited numbers will upgrade over a weekend, making it less problematic if there's a major issue
You've got all week to prepare
You want to give yourself as much time as possible
The last one's the big one, I think. S/w releases are a big thing to co-ordinate so having all week to get the servers updated etc. makes sense.
Also, I'll echo the sentiments about the lack of communication. Lots of hints from Nokia about "a new release", but nothing on maemo-announce, -users or -developer. Nothing on their blogs syndicated to planet.maemo.org. Nothing on the maemo.org frontpage.
This is Nokia shooting themselves in the foot on the "trying to be more open development". Bemoaning the lack of assistance with Hildon Desktop and Maemo, but then not communicating when releases are going to occur are mutually exclusive positions.
No-one will contribute if it's just Nokia taking what others do for free (or for a discounted device).
