Now that we have 2 more developers with SVN, it's somewhat easier to keep on top of bug fixes and development to keep releases on track.
It's quite heartening to see new people joining the list and occasionally popping into the irc channel after many people wrote off Maypole when a large chunk of users and developers moved to Catalyst.
I think Maypole has been revitalised and is very much a healthy and useful product. We have plenty of ideas of what we want to do with it and Simon is frequently able to surprise even people like myself with just what it is capable of.
on a different note - I found this handy Template Toolkit reference card on the TT list.