Week 17 begins today. We were promised 4 month patch cycles instead of 14 week cycles. Today begins week 17 and the launch date for 7.3 still hasn't been announced. It likely out 16 week patch cycle will be closer to 20 weeks (5 months) this time.
Edit: Acknowledgement that a month isnt 4 weeks. I phrased it like this because developers typically have 2 or 4 week "sprints" and based it off of an interpretation that I had of what a month meant as a software developer myself. REGARDLESS if you assume a month is 4.3 weeks and a patch should be released at 17 weeks (rounding down) it would still be consistently later than 4 months.
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Edit: Acknowledgement that a month isnt 4 weeks. I phrased it like this because developers typically have 2 or 4 week "sprints" and based it off of an interpretation that I had of what a month meant as a software developer myself. REGARDLESS if you assume a month is 4.3 weeks and a patch should be released at 17 weeks (rounding down) it would still be consistently later than 4 months.
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