Status of mj2 development?

Hi,
I'm hunting for a replacement for a webcrossing
discussions system. Looking to get more email-centric,
but retain a web presence for the list.
Being a past majordomo user, I was naturally excited
to finally get majordomo2 running. I do have a few
issues with it that I would need to change before
turning it loose on my people; and I'm also curious
about the general health of mj2 development.

In general, if there are pending improvements in any
of these areas, it would be great to hear it.
Otherwise, I may do it myself:

1. ui: I need a cleaner, simpler web ui. It looks like
this should be fairly straightforward, at least as far
as the web templates go. Most of what I need is plain
ol' html changes (e.g. going to stylesheet based
layout and styling rather than tables and almost no
styling.)

2. extended user information: I would need to have
real names for each subscriber, and perhaps store
other information.

3. subscription based on master list and site signup
key (password): The main list would be set up by an
initial dump of records from an external source, and
subsequent changes to the master user database would
all be administrative (could be hand editing a file.)
But it would be great to have "sub list" subscriptions
user-driven, with the restriction that only users in
the master list could subscribe, and also restricted
by entering a site pass key.

(This master list is the school registration database,
and it must be changed over every year.)

4. Need to be able to search the archives.

5. Some ui annoyances: 
  - changing password is too many steps, 
  - navigating around and logging in/out is 
confusing.

Just a short list...

Erik