No, folks, I haven't died.

[Francois-Rene Rideau]

>       Just wanted to drop a little note to suggest that I still do exist,
> am living and breatheing.
   Glad to learn it ;-)


>       As for the project here itself, does anyone else think it would be
> helpful to have some sort of vision around here?
   Yes, many asked about publishing some kind of overview of the project.
I guess I'll have to do it (though I'd be glad if someone else would
head up this task).


> Isn't there at least
> some semi-logical order of what needs to be decided when, so that we
> could "get started"?
   The project is somehow parallelized already. My opinion is each
subproject should begin to write exploratory code to settle things
and find the critical points as they refine their specifications.
Synchronization between projects would be done later and progressively
(partial lazy evaluation ;).


> I know the project is going forward, but certainly
> not very fast.  I know part of this is due to lack of manpower, but
> couldn't some sort of layout make better use of our availible resources?
   With the current charter, the main problem is there lacking maintainers.
I'm open to any suggestion to improve the organization as well as anything
in the project...


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