During this week, Robert (one of maintainers of grub), proposed on the mailing list to freeze it. We won't do a hard freeze but we'll only accept patches that:

• Fix bugs
• Were accepted upstream
  
• Adds a feature that's need to a lot of people

Besides, he did a lot of good work on GRUB2. All new developments, improvements and refactorings are focused on GRUB2 now. We intend to move to it as soon as Etch goes out and 'cause of that we engourage everyone to make a test and report his/her results to us.

I also want to ask to everyone who did previous work on grub and that wasn't merged until now, try to convert it to grub2 and coordenate with us how we can integrate it better with grub2.