To be fair, I vaguely remember that discussion too, and some of the
changes he planned would be useful. And since a big part of what he
was also volunteering for was to just plain clean up and maintain the
code (which many including Rob Mayoff have described as ugly and
nasty), it is probably in our interest to encourage rather than
discourage his efforts.
Also, agreeing not to release any broken code is not quite the same
thing as promising to never ever commit anything which might have
bugs. But looks like his last commit was 2004/02/15, more than two
months ago, so yeah, that does seem like rather too long a time to
leave egregiously broken code (which is what the errors above
indicate, right?) sitting unfixed on the CVS head.