Yes, development is still under way. I had about a month long lapse after meeting the most amazing person ever (no, not RMS or Linus), but I'm back to work.

Not sure when 0.2.1 (or maybe we'll jump to 0.3 or so) will come, but Icadyptes is coming along fairly well. It has a very long ways to go and one of these days I should write up some sort of plan, but we will see. We're now on Linux 2.6.29.1; you can take a look at the Gitweb if you are interested. I tried out GCC 4.4.0, but found that it built a broken glibc 2.8; although that *could* be glibc's fault (4.3.x builds it just fine). I tried using dash as /bin/sh, but found that Pacman calls install scriptlets with /bin/sh (hacking at Pacman might be a better route); unfortunately existing install scriptlets are riddled with Bashisms. I reverted back to Bash as /bin/sh. POSIX-compliant shell doesn't even support arrays, yuck. Of course this is a generalization, but it looks like you get interpreter bloat with Bash or bloated code with sh-compatible script :-/. Time for a Lua shell.

A rough to do list could be as follows:
Upgrade to x-server 1.6.x, rebuild drivers with Mesa 7.4/7.5.
Update e17.
Find a way to update to Readline 6 without breaking ABI compatibility (else it may have to wait a while). We should give Bash 4 a try, too.
Get OSS4 working on all of my hardware (works perfectly on most, I'm quite pleased).
Move to the new iw wireless utilities with the regulatory domains in userspace.

...And about a hundred other things. If anyone is interested in helping, I'd appreciate a post on the forums, dropping by in #icadyptes on irc.freenode.net, or contacting me directly.

Thanks for reading!
--Teran (sega01)