I've been rather busy with some personal stuff (I recently changed full time employment), and that has slowed down progress quite considerably. However I am trying to make more forward progress 8-)
I'm working on two things at once :
a) Improve reliability and fix some memory leaks which are causing issues with larger schedule databases and forward scheduling of recordings.
b) Improving the 'out of the box' experience by adding a 'first run assistant' to handle the setup tasks, including channel mapping (which is one of the trickiest things to get right during setup).
I think there's a chance that the first task will be complete in the next couple of weeks (allowing for the rather severe lack of time I still have)