[theora-dev] Alpha Two? (Impatient fan seeks news)

[emaillist+ot at dogphilosophy.net]

According to THIS:

http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/update.html

"Alpha Two is due out on December 1st"

And according to THIS:

http://lwn.net/Articles/11775/

"we've already got some fantastic plans for Theora Alpha Two."

Believe it or not, I'm actually restraining myself from jumping
up and down yelling "where is it!?!  where is it?!?"...but I DID
want to ask - what are the plans, in terms of features and code
changes, for Alpha Two, and how (in a more general sense) is
development going on it?  IS development going on it?  (CVS
hasn't been updated since alpha one...)

At what point will development reach a point where contributions
from "outside" will be helpful?

Would it be useful or helpful if someone started up a "Theora Traffic" 
page to spread development news?  (And, yes, I AM volunteering, if anyone's
interested).

My ability to contribute code to the project is limited (I'm competent
enough to "tweak" other people's code, but not good enough with C to 
add new features wholesale), but I'm quite willing (and as readers of
this list probably know by now, downright eager) to contribute what
I can (e.g. documentation, such as:

http://www.dogphilosophy.net/SECTION-Technical_Stuff/ogg-theora-microhowto.html

as well as testing, and relatively minor coding updates, e.g. tweaks to
error messages and options, creation of "example files" [encoded examples,
etc.] )

Any news?
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