Looks like very good progress has been made on the Third party Viewer Policy, a new faq is up http://wiki.secondlife.com/w/index.php?title=Linden_Lab_Official:Third_Party_Policy_and_Viewer_Directory_FAQ

Our builds here are progressing as well, i’ve made a number of cosmetic changes to address issues such as

  • Displaying the appropriate messages to the user on first install as per the TVP
  • custom channels
  • custom branded window title
  • custom information in Help->About window
  • use of a different user location to ~/.secondlife to avoid _any_ possible damage conflict to an offical viewer

Git is upto date with these changes, and binaries and the reopening of the download pages should be fairly soon as time and testing permits.