Derek Wright on the Project Module and Testing
A lot of people may not know how critical the project* modules are to the Drupal development ecosystem, but the project, project issue tracking & CVS integration modules are at the center of operating the issue queues on Drupal.org and therefore facilitating the distributed development of Drupal's huge developer base.
Derek Wright (aka dww) talks a bit about the storied history of the suite of project modules and his efforts to bring them out of a state of disrepair.
Derek & Chad Phillips have started a consulting company named 3281d consulting, which is named after the project module's project page at http://drupal.org/node/3281. They're focusing on further developing tools for project management, issue tracking, revision control & release management as well as providing consulting on security and test-driven integration tools -- all informed from their work on drupal.org.
They've also got a few pet projects waiting for a sponsor like a more robust Version Control API as well as improving the user experience of install profiles.