Nice work! I know that you guys have been slaving away on this release (and the infrastructure that built it) and I'm so happy to see the fruits of your labour! IMO this is a major milestone release (which I guess is a bit funny in that it's a point release) and obvioulsy there is still plenty of work to be done but it's a huge step forward...

I think releasing the build infrastructure as an appliance is a fantastic idea and also providing the source for each appliance via GitHub is brilliant! I am assumimng that with these in place, individuals could choose to build an 'official' TKL appliance themselves?

And whilst I know it has been a lot of work for you guys, it will change the way and the degree to which the community can engage with the project. Hopefully (eventually) you may even see your workload decrease (and/or give room for new innovations and ideas to be fulfilled). Using GitHub will allow bug fixes and tweaks to be provided by the community and merged as appropriate. Also customised and new appliances will be able to be added to the fold relatively easily (community developers can use GitHub to host there custom appliance code and TKL could fork it to bring it in as a new official appliance).

I have a ton of questions about TKLDev and the implications for TKLPatch (like will it be depreciated or is it part of TKLDev) but I think I should wait for the announcement before I start rattling through them as I'm sure you will answer many before I even ask them!