All, Right now we are putting a lot of effort in getting the BRMS (http://markproctor.blogspot.com/2007/02/brms-introduction-and-progress-up...) finished, and that is consuming us a lot of time. On the other hand, we also have you helping us to test and stabilize the new version, and opening bug tickets. This situation provides a good opportunity for those that have that inner willing to become an open source contributor, but don't know how, or is a bit shy to ask. :) So, if you are one of these people, please come aboard and be part of the next Drools major release. We can promisse you will have a lot to learn, will reduce your sleeping hours, will lose a few pounds, but more importantly, will get to know new people, make new friends, increase your network and be known as an OSS contributor. We have features to develop, documentation to write and bugs to fix. You are welcome to help whetever you feel more comfortable. You can reach us here in the list, on our private e-mails and specially online at our IRC channel: IRC://irc.codehaus.org:6667 #drools look for: tirelli, conan, mic_hat, fmeyer, etc Bellow a sample list of bugs we have open that are quick ways to start, in case you are wondering what to do: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-739 - Exception reading PackageBuilder Errors http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-732 - Modify object optimization problem http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-718 - Compatibility problems with eval() statements http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-723 - Eclipse plugin detects inconsistent errors http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-704 - Drools 3.1M1 rules build results in UOE http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-658 - Unable to use global variable from inside a function http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-631 - Serialization/Deserialization error Don't be fouled, the above is no easy stuff, but otherwise it would not be fun, right? :) Regards, Edson -- Edson Tirelli Software Engineer - JBoss Rules Core Developer Office: +55 11 3124-6000 Mobile: +55 11 9218-4151 JBoss, a division of Red Hat @ www.jboss.com