Dear all,
I hope that 2.008 will be my last ASDF release. I may still make emergency bug fixes (if any is needed), or merge patches sent to me, but I don't intend to actively develop ASDF anymore. I feel it has reached the point where I wanted it to be, although it took much more efforts than I feared. Just look at the git log to see how hard it was, and read my and Robert's paper for ILC'2010 to get an idea why we did things that way. http://common-lisp.net/project/asdf/ilc2010draft.pdf
And so, ASDF is looking for a new active maintainer. To volunteer, just start hacking on your own repo, and I'll hand you the keys after I merge your first commit.
I intend to focus on XCVB, and its dependencies, cl-iolib and libfixposix. If ASDF moves towards more declarative .asd files, XCVB will certainly try to be compatible.
[ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ] [...] there is what I call the "roundtrip fallacy": it is a mistake to use, as journalists and some economists do, statistics without logic but the reverse does not hold: It is not a mistake to use logic without statistics. — N. C. Taleb, Fooled by Randomness, 2004.