POrting: status of the project

Hi to everybody,

i read with interests that somebody was thinking about a porting of 
#Develop to linux.
I also read that all the work has to be done by contributors because the 
core team preferred to concentrate on the
windows version for many reasons that i dont want to mention right now, 
but that i understand very well.

my question is:
-what has been done so far about the porting? how many people are 
working on it, where can i found information about this project?
Second, i'd like to know from who is porting right now, what are the 
results so far, when do you think it will be possible to compare it to 
monodev? i ask this because i'd like to learn more about mono, and i 
still have to choose my point of entry: monodev or the porting of 
#develop. Of course i'm not expecting the porting to be completed, but i 
think that it could be a good chance to take a look on a very 
interesting project (my point of view is the one of the contributor, not 
the final user :-) )

is there a CVS or something like that?

thanks a lot

Luigi Malagò

PS: is there a way not to publish the email from wich i'm posting on the 
web?
thanks a lot!

Luigi Malagò