There and back again: what to expect in the next EVT version

Developing software as complex as EVT requires a significant amount of time and resources. As a result, the release frequency of new versions has never been particularly high, especially for major versions. The first release of EVT 1 dates back to 2014, in 2016 we published the first alpha version of EVT 2, after which more complete versions followed: a beta1 in 2017, and a beta2 in 2020. Not only did it take three years between the two beta versions of EVT 2, but we still don’t see the light for a 1.0 version. What has happened in the meantime? How is it possible that a stable version for EVT 1 was achieved relatively quickly, and development slowed down significantly thereafter? This talk aims at updating the Italian DH community about the current status of EVT and its future prospects with regard to the next version (EVT 3).