As we start to change some of how we interact with the user community for our software, it's been a mutual suggestion by the Board and the development team that we try and do a better job of keeping people aware of what we're up to as a project and what our upcoming plans look like. To that end, the updates that have been traditionally provided on a monthly basis to the Board will be done publically using wiki postings. Obviously, we can't share 100% of what we're doing because of, for example, security issues we haven't disclosed yet, but for the most part I'm going to try and limit the amount of sanitization.
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The SP is long overdue for a major update, but realistically that's not likely to happen given its relative maturity and the bandwidth we have as a project. What is needed however is a documentation cleanup, a lot of dependency care and feeding, and a reassessment of our platform support (i.e., Solaris, this means you). So there will be a V3 SP but it's not likely to be a rewrite or even a significant change really (with the notable exception of a native IIS7 module which i is already available to test). Unfortunately that doesn't make it a small amount of work because the bulk of it is work we have to do to remediate issues in our dependencies, many of which are no longer being effectively maintained by the Apache Software Foundation. In a perfect world, we would change them to more supported options, but that's a bit prohibitive without additional developers to pick up slack in other areas.
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