Well after a flury of IRC chats this morning it seems we are starting to communicate what is needed from the GeoServer development cycle over the coming months. I have lost track of exactly what is intended with the different GeoServer branches and OWS4 ... my understanding is the GTSteering document is still correct.
Some background information for this discussion is contained on the following page:
-<http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOS/Roadmap+for+support+of+Observations+and+Measurements+patterns+in+WFS+and+WCS>
This page is need of translation (sorry Rob!) for the developer community at large; and does provide the larger direction for both the geoserver and geotools development community right now.
As developers have hit me with questions I will record the comments on the page itself. Gabriel I encourage you to help with this process as you are much closer to the metal on these issues then me.
Jody
PS> I also changed the RnD page to provide a list of its children so content like this does not go unnoticed again.