No, you are not wasting your time, but I really cannot provide any details at this point.

As I mentioned many times before, we comment on future features only when they are ready for testing or at least close to testing phase or we keep them as a surprise. It proved to work just fine.

Now that 1.1.4 is out, I can comment on this. Decision to include a specific feature in a release may be influenced based on number of Upgrade and Support renewals it would "harvest", but that is one of the least important reasons. Although it is there as one of the variables in the equation, we NEVER base our decisions on it. No matter when we add something, we will always have a constant stream of upgrades because that is how activeCollab licensing is structured.

Most important reason why feature may be excluded from a specific release or a branch is because it does not fit or we do not have "platform capacity" to do it right.

Let me explain on an example.

Subscription improvements added to 1.1.4 are important. They make the life easier for ALL activeCollab users because they make things going unnoticed less likely to happen. That is HUGE, but from technical perspective, it was easy to make because this change does not bring any radical changes to the system. Only default behavior is changed (smart defaults vs configuration) and although it has huge impact, it was easily implemented and just works.

Reordering tasks is also huge, but it requires a whole lot more work. It requires changes to both tickets and checklists, jQuery UI (not available in v1.1.x) and A LOT of testing. Reason why task reordering will not be added to 1.1 is not because we want to make a quick buck from upgrades and support renewal, but because it would make 1.1 unstable. Feature of this complexity is added only after proper beta testing, and never to something that is stable for a couple of months and should remain that way until new version comes.

Because of that, this type of feature needs to wait for major update that will go through at lease several weeks of beta testing. These major releases take time to be developed, and, as before, they do not take that long because we are lazy or want to make a quick buck, but because there is a LOT OF WORK that needs to be done.

It would be really bad if we had a release every week or had a constantly unstable system because we keep adding things like crazy. Task reordering is something that will be added at some point in the future, but not in activeCollab 1.1. Reason - 1.1 branch stability. It's been stable for the past couple of months and we plan to keep it that way.