I've read the article 5 times and I can almost interpret it that way in the how to migrate section which mentions 3.23. The Timeline section has no mention of dates. I would like to see a table of dates or at least an Oompa Loompa song.
There's no need to interpret anything. It's spelled out in the list in the Timeline section already. Point 1 tells you it's in Edge. Point 2 tells you that stable will be able to start migrating with 3.23, ie when current Edge becomes stable.
I am not seeing the same thing as you. The timeline section says that if I install 3.23 it will be user-merged and if I upgrade from an older release I wont be forced until 3.26. There are no dates. A timeline will have times and/or dates. Perhaps it is a CDN caching issue.
Not OP, but I think OP is looking for dates, as in a year, month, day, situation—not only version numbers. I think they want to know what specific date 3.23 will be released with this change.
They didn't understand the version numbers (notice they were complaining that the blog post jumped the gun because there is no merge-usr in 3.22) and wanted dates. I explained the version numbers to them. Yes, there are no dates; Alpine never gives expected dates for future releases because nobody knows what they are.