Damien,
> I see there's a "facets-lite" in the mental branch:
> * how stable is it?
>   
It's pretty stable, actually.  That's mostly because it's trivial -- you 
can only add to the meta area and the area above the buttons.  I don't 
see it persisting however, once we get more flexibility.
> * could it be extended into the more complete facets system or would it
> have to be rewritten?
>   
There are a number of design flaws in facets that need to be alleviated, 
and in my opinion, it might be easier to rewrite.  'facets-lite' was 
just a nickname because I wanted to enable things like page_attachments 
without the full-blown hyper-extensible model of facets.
> * how far is the mental branch from merged into trunk?
>
>   
mental became 0.6.0, if you look at the changelogs.
> Having this functionality, even a subset of the grander plan, would IMHO
> do wonders for extension development.  I've just set up one site using
> Radiant and would like to use it more, but currently see the lack of
> facets as a stumbling block.
>   
What specific sections of the interface do you want to modify? Until I 
get time to work on facets, the least we could do is put some more 
flexibility in trunk if the request is reasonable, well thought out and 
tested.  Of course, you can always just copy the current UI and modify 
it to fit your needs in an extension.  If you have other extensions that 
do the same, however, this could be sticky -- see the recent discussions 
about reorder/CopyMove.

As always, patches are welcome.  Since it is open source, you are also 
welcome to modify the codebase yourself.

Cheers,

Sean
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