Release plugin development.

[Nord, James]

Is the release plugin development ongoing or is this an orphand plugin.
 
I ask as I and others have a showstopper with it not inheriting the
process environment when doing release:perform.
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRELEASE-406
 
Or does anyone have any bright ideas how to work around this?
 
Regards,
 
    /James