Hello Jazz, please to hear you.
I'm also a Java engineer, and as you say, SerfJ is inspired by RoR
because I love Ruby too :).
I planned some new features for next version, but sadly I haven't
enough time to work on them because
of my job and my daugther, that is only 2 and I have to take care of
her most weekends. However I haven't abandoned the project, I'll
develop new features soon.
Well, you can see the current the Roadmap at
http://www.elpaso-software.com/projects/serfj/roadmap and open issues
here
http://www.elpaso-software.com/projects/serfj/issues
If you like to contribute, you could do it in several ways, or picking
up open issues and develop them, or giving ideas for new features, or
developing new features, writing samples to complete web
documentation...
I'm very clean writing code, so it's important to me that code written
is also clean, well formatted, etc. Also I try to make things simple
and easy, I don't get to do it always, but I try it. So if you want, a
way to
contribute would be to submit some patch files so I can revise them,
and if it's everything ok, submit the
new code to the repository. If you decide to contribute, I'll give you
access to the tickets system as a new developer. And of course I'll
give you credits as contributor, partner or whatever depending on your
contributions.
I'm open to criticism, new ideas or new contributors like you, so feel
free to say everything you want.
Where are you from?, Which IDE do you like for Java development?