I would be putting myself in a superior position if I were to continue to support the expectation that the XC team will respond to the community's every question, concern, and worry.
Why? Because doing so supports and enables a dependency upon me to provide information and support.
But I'm not some infallible/impartial/ideal source of information. ... etc
Isn't it your role to provide information and support?
Yes it is.
Are you saying that you are no longer prepared to provide information and support?!
No.
What I've been doing all along - especially with my reply to Reebokass - is providing information.
It's just not the information the community expects or necessarily wants (though I know some will be relieved to see me trying to dismantle the prior mode of interaction between me and the community, because it caused so much undue strain and emotion.)
In my post above, I'm supplying higher-order information pertaining to the way we interact. It's information that's as relevant to XC as any other information.
As always, I will continue to provide information of the normal sort regarding releases, news, etc.
And for the time being, I will also provide higher-order information about how the community and I are interacting when it seems to me to be pertinent.
OK - great! Then I think you just have to be consistent - i.e. collectively swinging from "there's great news - and tor-sticks - coming any minute" to "stop bitching about progress" is a recipe for disaster. Somewhere in the middle would be nice. You just have to be precise and say - due to the fudstorm the timeline for tor-sticks - or whatever - is now xxx. In my opinion a weekly update would be a good idea to have something to point at - it would deflect 90% of the questions you get and prevent you getting into debates on dielactical materialism and the like.