Seems kind of silly though to make an announcement about a future announcement of a testnet release... which simply means it'll still be like 4 months (if it works) before phase 0 of a multi-year process to get to 2.0.

It'd be like an author making a pre-announcement about the date he plans to announce the font he is choosing to use when writing his book. I guess it at least means progress is being made, but still, seems kind of underwhelming.