I wanted to point you at two things I think that are important, things that we've been neglecting in the past months.

1. IRC Channel: we've ignored this way of communication for quite some time but enough of that, I added a "fire up BitchX" postit on my desk so from now on I'll spend as much time there as I can, and hopefully other ossim users / developers too. See you at irc.freenode.org, channel #ossim
2. Bug tracking mechanism: honestly, I never liked the one provided by sf.net so I followed a suggestion from a friendly guy at #ossim and installed FlySpray as a bug tracking system. Check it out at http://www.ossim.net/bugs/ (Need to add the virtualhost for bugs.ossim.net :-) ).