Efforts in uPortal 2 CVS "HEAD" are focused towards a near-term uPortal 2.6 release. This release is expected to be feature-complete and producing release candidates for quality assurance in early March. Yale University is poised to contribute exciting drag-and-drop user layout preferences features built on the popular Dojo ajax framework, targeted for inclusion in this release. This enhancement is the debut contribution of recently added committer, Unlicensed user. Paul Gazda, also recently added as a project committer, is to be thanked for addressing several groups management issues this week. Unlicensed user and Unlicensed user continue to merge Unicon's Academus uPortal enhancements into the codebase. Unlicensed user, also of Unicon, has posted a proof-of-concept result of migrating uPortal CVS to SVN for community review. The prospect of this conversion was met with developer support and so it is likely this conversion will be completed soon, ideally in time for uPortal 2.6. Meanwhile, the uPortal users' mailing list has seen a surge in discussion and community mutual support in making use of the uPortal platform and Bart Grebowiec, a user experience designer at Rutgers, has been granted project committership to further project focus on user experience. Available uPortal developers are encouraged to gather in person (or via remote technologies) for the April 2007 developers' meeting.
I cite Bart as being granted committership, has that actually happened yet or am I jumping the gun? Also, please tweak his description to whatever's appropriate.