Hi Steve, this is the most common question people ask me.
There's the old Shigeru Miyamoto quote: "A rushed game will be forever bad. A delayed game will eventually be good."
We don't have deadlines within freeCodeCamp, but rather priorities that we consistently work toward.
Rather than giving you a firm timetable, I will say that we are close to having the certifications live, and that we are doing a staged roll-out.
In the meantime, we have tons of full-length Python courses on freeCodeCamp's YouTube :)