I have received a private mail from François Charette saying that he no longer has time to maintain polyglossia and he offered the package to others to become maintainers. I myself will not have any time tilll the end of this year and moreover do not know git and have no time to learn it. If someone is able to clone it, migrate it to subversion (or cvs) and become a new maintainer, i will actively join the team of developers in January 2012.
On the other hand, I intend to provide a XeTeX back-end for babel in short. I've made some tests and I was able to typeset a document in Russian with babel and a few additional macros. I presume I'll start working by November. Not that I like babel, but it's what most users want and what most TUGs support. Javier ----------------------------- http://www.tex-tipografia.com -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
