Chuck Hedrick (one of the Sakai community’s superstars) is always way ahead of our ability to integrate patches/features. This is great because it leads us to figuring out how to handle materials coming from a broad community. This will knock out the cobwebs in procedures that we don’t yet have.
But this is really pretty simple. Chuck H is not waiting for everyone to give him permission to move forward – he is just doing it. Since there is no paid system integrator in the Sakai foundation, we just have to get folks to work togther and try to get the community to render opinions on stuff so stuff can move forward.
In a way, since IU, OSP, and UM are doing most of the work in this area, they need to get involved to make sure these modifications are good and worthy to drop into trunk. Now IU and UM are just volunteers like Rutgers, but IU and UM are the “leads” in the areas that Chuck H. is working so they need to respond to these patches in some timeframe.