i've been following the development for more than a year. i've even contributed a fix for a null pointer exception on the menu editor.
the only news for me is to see it back on the news. which is a great thing in the sense that it'd bring awareness to this great desktop manager.
i've tried using KDE, gnome, several *boxen to name a few, but i always go back to windowmaker.
the killer featuer to me is the automatic cascading of new windows. i often need to open more than a dozen terminal windows to do my job, and having them cascaded across several virtual desktops is a helluva lot more eficient than any other method (and no, tabs don't work for my workflow)