And we're off

I have set up the sourceforge project. You can find it here. I've also classified all of the work, and split it up into releases. Here's what will go into release one:

Configuration	Use native .NET configuration
Configuration	Remove existing config assembly
Installers	WIX installers
Runtime Control	Add transactional support from COM+
Runtime Control	Extend reverse engineering to examine SPs and create wrappers for them.
Runtime Control	Configurable ID strategy
Runtime Control	Configurable transaction isolation policy
Templates	Move core templates into resource assembly
Testing	Create a proper test database
Runtime Control	Divide system between runtime and development projects
Runtime Control	Standardise all names to CamelCase

I think the highest priority is the configuration rework. Configuration in the previous system was way too complicated. What we need is a very simple, very reliable system that can easily be expanded to accommodate something like the config app block at a later date. As soon as that is done, the key task will be converting it from its current broken state to a working state, and then splitting the system up into runtime and development arms. I will also do some work towards creating WIX installers for the runtime and development systems, including an installer for packaging source releases, that will allow the easy setup of a development environment for new volunteers on the project. This is of course based on the "if you build it, they will come" model of open source development.