Quote from: JPCain on January 30, 2018, 07:47:10 AM

When do people think LN will be rolled out. I've heard couple of months, I've heard 6 months and I've also heard not this year.

Anyone got an idea as the likely announcement.

LN is not some product that you "roll out" at some arbitrary date. Lightning Network is a network which already exists out there on bitcoin main-net which you can choose to use if you wanted right now.
there are many nodes/wallets made for it just like there are many nodes/wallets made for bitcoin. you choose one out of these and join this network and start using it.
https://github.com/lightningnetwork
https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning
https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair
https://github.com/LN-Zap/zap-desktop

but since these are new and have not been used as much, they may have bugs. so be careful if you decided to use them with real money/bitcoin.