Hi Dennis; I am afraid that what we are doing is exactly cherry picking code and creating patches. AFAICT there is no one actively working on the symphony code. If I notice something I like, I open a bugzilla issue and try to get someone from IBM to look at it.
The code still has unacceptable components (at least lcc cpp) and I am not sure it builds. I guess if you find it too bothersome we could move the code to Apache Extras, but it is still useful to be able to look at it somewhere. Pedro. Ps. ApacheCon was fun indeed!