By the way, I am finally starting again to work on the ECMAScript/SVG binding (not Inkscape scripting). I checked in a cleaned-up directory of Mozilla's Javascript C engine. It is in /src/extension/script/js so that it can be convenient to both the SVG binding and IS scripting guys. I also started checking in a few files in /src/ecma for testing. Hopefully in a few days we can start seeing some progress. Bryce shamed me out of my lethargy with his article. ;-)
Off topic: You might be interested in this mail list thread from another OS project (probably -the- OS project), gcc:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-06/msg00014.html
This shows the kind of interaction among the members of a very large project. Some of the threads in that list can be fascinating.
Bob