ETA for Electrum 3.0 with SegWit?

[MJS_gold]

On October 15, Electrum tweeted that 3.0 "took longer than expected, but we are ready now."  Anyone know why it hasn't been released?  Is there a new ETA?

I made the mistake of transferring my BTC to segwit addresses on my Ledger Nano, thinking that Electrum would soon support segwit and provide the coin control features that I need (e.g., being able to send BTC from a specific address). 
Are there any other wallets that have segwit, coin control, and Ledger Nano support?

[jackg]

They're probably just still testing it.

Without compromising the security of the device, unlessthere's another wallet that supports both ledger and segwit, you'll have to wait until electrum v3 comes out. For now your Bitcoins are safe. If you need to access them, you can always run live linux from a CD ROM and sign a transaction to send the funds back to yourself using your private key in bitcoin core but if possible, keep your private keys on your ledger wallet.

[MJS_gold]

Are you suggesting I run a Core node on Linux because it offers coin control?  I'm afraid I lack the resources and expertise for that.  I can send BTC with the Ledger software wallet but it would mean sacrificing privacy (my main concern) and paying higher tx fees due to the lack of coin control (their software does not try to minimize tx inputs to reduce fees).

Is there any way I can get in on the testing of Electrum v3?

[TryNinja]

Are you suggesting I run a Core node on Linux because it offers coin control?  I'm afraid I lack the resources and expertise for that.  I can send BTC with the Ledger software wallet but it would mean sacrificing privacy (my main concern) and paying higher tx fees due to the lack of coin control (their software does not try to minimize tx inputs to reduce fees).

Is there any way I can get in on the testing of Electrum v3?

You can actually build Electrum from the source yourself with the last commits, since AFAIK Segwit is already somehow usable. But I wouldn't recommend. Just follow the GitHub repo[1] README.

[1] https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum

[jackg]

Are you suggesting I run a Core node on Linux because it offers coin control?  I'm afraid I lack the resources and expertise for that.  I can send BTC with the Ledger software wallet but it would mean sacrificing privacy (my main concern) and paying higher tx fees due to the lack of coin control (their software does not try to minimize tx inputs to reduce fees).

Is there any way I can get in on the testing of Electrum v3?

Follow tryninja's suggestion below.
Just check you definitey have a backup of a seed and you double check everything your doing and you do download the first stable/complete version of electrum when it is released and supports segwit.
Also, I was suggesting that you run bitcoin core without downloading any blocks (however I realise that may not work with segwit addresses now )

Are you suggesting I run a Core node on Linux because it offers coin control?  I'm afraid I lack the resources and expertise for that.  I can send BTC with the Ledger software wallet but it would mean sacrificing privacy (my main concern) and paying higher tx fees due to the lack of coin control (their software does not try to minimize tx inputs to reduce fees).

Is there any way I can get in on the testing of Electrum v3?

You can actually build Electrum from the source yourself with the last commits, since AFAIK Segwit is already somehow usable. But I wouldn't recommend. Just follow the GitHub repo[1] README.

[1] https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum

It has normally been tested before it's put on github as far as I am aware, however, I (like you) wouldn't necessarily recommend this is OP can wait a bit longer for it.

[MJS_gold]

You can actually build Electrum from the source yourself with the last commits, since AFAIK Segwit is already somehow usable. But I wouldn't recommend. Just follow the GitHub repo[1] README.

[1] https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum

On that page under "Development version", I found the following series of what I believe to be Linux commands:

git clone git://github.com/spesmilo/electrum.git
cd electrum
python3 setup.py install
sudo apt-get install pyqt5-dev-tools
pyrcc5 icons.qrc -o gui/qt/icons_rc.py
sudo apt-get install protobuf-compiler
protoc --proto_path=lib/ --python_out=lib/ lib/paymentrequest.proto
sudo apt-get install python-pycurl gettext
./contrib/make_locale

If I create an Electrum folder in the persistent storage of my Tails USB, open a terminal in that folder, and enter those commands, will I theoretically end up with a functioning copy of Electrum v.3?