Release of Midgard 2 slightly postponed

I was browsing the net just for fun and found this one out of Midgard:

Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 23:00:59 +0200 (EET)
From: Henri Bergius <Henri.Bergius@iki.fi>
Subject: MWS for 22nd of December, 1999 (#26)
To: midgard@greywolves.org, lwn@lwn.net, marty@linuxtoday.com,

Greetings!

There has been lots of development
projects going around Midgard this
week and the situation looks quite
promising. Some of the Midgard 2 code
is finally available, and we've also
seen some new volunteers popping
up.

This summary will probably be the
last one this year, but we look at
being able to publish more information
again in early January as Midgard 2
will be nearing beta phase.

But now to this week's announcements.

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Current versions:
   Stable: 1.2.5 (Mad King)
  Devel.: 1.3 

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Midgard 2 schedule

Jukka has been very busy with some
other projects and so the schedule
with Midgard 2 has been slightly
postponed. We hoped to publish an
early beta already this Christmas
but the code won't quite be ready
for that yet.

Most of the Midgard 2 core code is
now in the CVS, but that is mostly
of interest to people who are looking
at contributing there. The current
code is not in a compilable state,
but Jukka has said an alpha (as in
compiles and runs but doesn't quite
do anything) should be available
within some days.

Meanwhile, there has been lots of
interesting discussion and research
projects going on around what 
features will get to Midgard 2. The
first quarter of 2000 will definitely
be interesting.

Piotras also grabbed the project in 2003. It's interesting to see the final results as soon as - hopefully in half a year - we actually will get Midgard2 out.

Some things never change. Midgard is an IT project so we can expect delays. Seven years sounds rather long, but Rome wasn't built in a day and conquerring the world is even more difficult.