Last I said something about the new CF app I said I was planning to deploy it over the holidays, and that clearly did not happen.
But I've been talking to Michael, as the current cf-chief, and doing some further testing with it, and we think now is a good time to go for it :) As the plan is to close out the current CF just a few days from now, we're going to use that and try to swap it out when traffic is at least at it's lowest (even if we're well aware it's not going to be zero).
So based on this, we plan to:
In the late evening on Jan 19th (evening European time that is), I will make the current CF app readonly, and move it to a new url where it will remain available for the foreseeable future (we have a lot of useful data in it after all).
Once this is done, Michael (primarily) will start working on syncing up the information about the latest patches into the new app. Much info is already synced there, but to make sure all the latest changes are included.
In the morning European time on the 20th, I'll take over and try to finish up what's left. And sometime during the day when things are properly in sync, we'll open up the new app for business to all users.
There are surely some bugs remaining in the system, so please have some oversight with that over the coming days/weeks. I'll try to get onto fixing them as soon as I can - and some others can look at that as well if it's something critical at least.
Further status updates to come as we start working on it...