Ya, sadly it was the latter. So I spent a week or so re-writing everything he has done and getting it working.
FG is functional, it needs some quality of life stuff, but it's done enough where I am back working on patch updates in Forge.
Now my job is working through the massive crapton of patches that Forge has. My current 'old' directory:
Forge is building fine. I finished that up last week. We just arnt publishing to the main download page because we don't want end users downloading things yet. As it's still being worked on.
As for other things, cpw has work to do on ModLauncher/FML stuff. And he won't have time to work on that until chirstmas vacation because of real work.
But, he is being kind enough to take time out from having with his kids for christmas to do some work on Forge.
So Ya... things are being done, you can see what what is being done by watching the git repos. Things are out far enough where modders can start testing things.
Giga has some stuff to do to make the MDK a bit more userfiendly.
Stuff is progressing, and we're not hiding it. There is no ETA or percentage complete because those are literally impossible to calculate because we are working on things as they come up.