A lot of people may still have questions about why Bukkit is taking so long, some of this might be covered, but most of it isn't really.
The first thing is that a lot of the code for servers has been massively changed, meaning that the Bukkit Team has to basically remake Bukkit, not all of it, but most of the key parts of how servers work has been changed meaning more work for EvilSeph and the rest of them. And as mentioned there doing this for free, and like the Admins, have actual lives to tend to, making it even harder. The good thing is that not all updates will be like this, only this one because of the new code, so when they got the first stable build ready, updates should fly out a lot easier. But that's not all, there is also like Fatnoob said changes in chunk saving, meaning that like he said if we played in 1.6.4, even with back ups we would still lose almost all are builds, including chests, so it would not be very beneficial for anyone.
This also includes plugins, I usually use a small private server to test plugins with friends and such, and a lot of plugins are going to need to do a huge overhaul to be ready for 1.7.2 and most of the plugins Noobscraft uses will probably change too, meaning that the server would highly change when it converted from 1.6.4 to 1.7.2, and not in a good way. If you are still confused, look at it like an 1000 word exam, that is kind of like coding, but it more would look like this to someone who has no idea: #HFGJ%&^%EYTRT%$W^T$REGR$ See what I mean? confusing, now lets say the exam was lowered to a maximum words of 500, so you have to change it a lot to make it work with the new requirements, most of the stuff has to be deleted, and you can't just delete half of it and say "done", you have to make it work so you can get that A+, or in this case a stable Bukkit build.
If you have anymore questions, post below and I'll edit the post if they aren't already answered, and also, I've seen some posts going off topic, so please makes sure to stay on topic here, so players who have real questions I can try to answer! Thanks.
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