I would be willing to bet that a lot of that patch activity was me, and I've been pulled away to other things. We need more people involved. It is true that the path of least resistance is v2 -- it's here and it works. But we need people to take the hard path and get on v3. I can tell you, that once you get going on it, you won't want to go back. v3 is really nice.
I guess v2 works too well :-)
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