Hope the headline generates some buzz but I have to first correct myself: Trails is not dead per se, rather Trails 1.x is in maintenance mode and Trails 2 (Tapestry 5 based version) has been renamed to Tynamo. Here's the full scoop (an edited version of what I had posted about it on trails-user list earlier):
Behind the scenes (actually on the dev list) we've been mulling over our strategy regarding Tapestry5. We lost the trailsframework.org
domain over a year ago (we, the current committers, never owned it so it was complicated anyway) and ever since we've been in a stalemate
about what to do with it. We finally decided a few months ago that the easiest option is to just rename the project and launch Trails 2
under a new name - Tynamo (still hosted at Codehaus). This is unannounced but the move is well under way and at this point we've
moved the codebase to a new repository and renamed the relevant modules and packages. Overall, I think there's a pretty good chance
that we'll have the initial Tynamo release out before the end of the year. We'll formally announce what I just said later.
So please, come visit us at http://tynamo.org. We are busily working on the new site and getting ready for our first releases. Snapshots are already available at http://ci.repository.codehaus.org/org/tynamo/. Obviously much of the code is the same as what we had in Trails except for the rename so it's not like we are starting from scratch. The source repository is already migrated, the new domain is up and our continuous builds are succesfully running so we are already back in business with Tynamo. By the time we are announcing Tynamo project to larger audience later this year (hopefully!), we should have multiple modules lined up for the release as well as decent documentation and examples to go with them.
As mentioned, Tapestry 4.x based Trails 1.x is now in maintenance mode but if there are any serious issues or questions regarding it, we are more than happy to support you. Many thanks to Codehaus and Ben especially for patiently working through our support request during the transition.