We'll do a full announcement, and in a week or so report on what changes we've made (moving the mail server being an obvious one).

Nate was told that we were traveling and that we'd get back to him. I then went about fixing the issue, verifying there weren't similar issues in other areas of the framework etc.

Ideally we would have told nate the release timetable, but that wasn't clear yet. Clearly we messed up here. However I'd hope in future people would send an email saying "any update" before posting to their blog and crying 'unresponsive'.