Yes, Jack, I'm afraid you have to go to the Yahoo group as mentioned to find out what's going on. One of the driving force members is anxious that it's gone a bit quiet, but my reading of this is that Chris Walshaw is formulating a proposal incorporating the recent discussions about transpositions and other matters, which are very technical and have been very contentious. He cannot rush this and also he has a very active life outside of his computer.

The topical debate on the ABC users group as it stands at the moment (and anyone could join and change its character) is mainly focussed on development matters, as it is felt important to further progress this after the near decade of stagnation, while the iron is hot.

However, there is also a fairly regular stream of other questions that arise in people's daily experience of using ABC.

Chris Walshaw's ABC Notation
site remains the principal ABC hub, containing information, a little used forum, and links, and also an excellent ABC tune search engine.