Yes, not in the current hardfork 24, but I've heard from them that it should be in hardfork 26. Usually hardforks take a few months so I'd say we need a year to get them.
I have no idea what hardfork 25 will be, and I wish it was SMTs instead, but I guess we'll understand once we get more updates on what's next after hardfork 25.
I think that if the Devs would publish a preliminary roadmap with projected milestones, we could have a better sense of how things are likely to progress. Moreover, it would be encouraging if the Devs were to acknowlege that strong interest in SMT's still exists within the community and that they remain commmited to rolling out SMT's and support.
I agree. I was told that a whitepaper which includes a rough roadmap is being worked on at the moment.
This whitepaper will be general guideline into what is HIVE, how to use it, what are some future objectives, etc..
The reason there isn't a specific roadmap is because development on HIVE is decentralized. Each dev (or development companies) is working on personal projects, which they believe bring value to hive. It is impossible to keep track of everything.
Since SMTs were a Steemit, Inc product, only a few are familiar with the code and testing of SMTs and they stopped working on that when more pressing matters arised (making HIVE work).
I suspect we'll get an update on whether they plan to resume testing of SMTs for final release after the hardfork 24 is done.
Yes, that would seem to make sense. Thanks for the info.