Ive been waiting for core to get usable, and Im tired of waiting. In the next month or two Ill be taking a good look and probably end up re-writing half the code, and implementing quite a bit more new code so that we can actually make core into a respectable, non-crapy product that people can actually use. Hopefully we can get the changes merged without too much headache. Ive been sitting on a large amount of code that Ive written over the years and extended which extended the old compat branch into a powerhouse.
Ive just done a SVN checkout from git and will start the process over the weekend, If anyone has any areas that they know that core currently sucks at and wants me to focus on that let me know
John