... a weekly update of progress would be nice. All it has to be is something like 80% coding completed on blah blah, 50% testing completed.
All devs keep everybody updated as to their project progress at least once a week - some every day or so - in a post here in this thread and/or on BlackCoin's reddit channel. The BlackCoin news sites often post summaries of these too. Percentages cannot be given as bugs/faults or new ideas/improvements are readily discovered and need to be implemented/resolved. Providing percentages/ratios of progress merely provides false hope and leads to disappointment due to unforeseen issues.