Release the webdav client and consider moving it into a jakarta's commons Httpclient

Hi to all developers,

I hava noticed that the WebDAV client library is a very important
piece for many other projects.
But the latest stable version is 2.1, release 2 and a half years ago!
(According to this: http://apache.otenet.gr/dist/jakarta/slide/binaries/)

I would like to ask:

1) Are there any plans for releasing a newer version of slide webdav client?

2) Does anybody agree on me that the WebDAV functionality may belong
to the Apache commons HTTP-Client library?


(I hope) I'm not starting a flame-war, i just wish that this useful
project gets some stable deliverables that others can depend on!


Regards,
  Kostis