It was this post by Charlie Griefer in November that caught my attention. Days, weeks and then months went by as it sat unanswered on the official Model-Glue google group. Model-Glue 3 aka “Gesture” had a test release around this time last year at cf.Objective() (where, hey, I’m speaking!) and since then there was a small smattering of blog posts on features but no real guidance as to where, if anywhere, the framework was going, let alone if it had a release date in this century.
On March 12th, I asked, “What’s up?” and specifically addressed my question to the project organizers. Nobody replied. On March 20th I followed up with “No, seriously, what’s up?” and the good Dan Wilson answered that he would take stock and get a post together which he delivered a few days later and confirmed what I had suspected about MG3: It ain’t dead but it hasn’t moved.
Now just a couple of days later, Joe Rinehart hands the reigns over to Dan fully which is a great breath of fresh air into the project. Judging from his pragmatic views on framework competition, I’m already excited to see what is going to happen next. So long as that next thing is a relatively comprehensive “What’s new and changed in MG3″ so I can start testing. 
Open source projects aren’t easy to manage and it seems the ColdFusion community’s often rise and fall as the result of a single driven developer. Here’s good luck wished to Dan in moving the ball down field and picking up steam again so that MG doesn’t fall to that fate.
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