The development of the Baetle plugin was suspended [1] and the priority was 
given to
the SKOS plugin. Now, I think that the community could already start to 
brainstorm
around the design and development of the plugin in question. 

Meanwhile, I'm discussing [2] with Henry Story to setup standard procedures to 
extract data from issue tracking systems (starting with JIRA), so that we'll be 
able to build our first samples of the plugin.

The idea is to have a customizable Bug Dashboard for each project using 
Forrest. The Bug Dashboard consists of an arbitrary number of widgets, each of 
them associated
with a specific search filter (content aggregation). What's more, Bug Widgets 
can communicate with the XML web server asynchronously (AJAX) to respond to 
user's requests for information. A simple and small, yet useful web-app, that 
is. 

Atlassian Software Systems may already have started/considered the development 
of an AJAX based user interface for JIRA but this, IMO wouldn't question the 
existence of such a plugin.

I'll be waiting for Forrest community members --my GSoC project mentor, Ross in 
particular-- to share their thoughts about the development of the Baetle plugin.

SinDoc

[1] http://marc.info/?l=forrest-dev&m=118120945026359&w=2#1
[2] http://groups.google.com/group/baetle/browse_frm/thread/9e16dcdcca66c195