Scott’s been doing cleanup and composer work. He recently brought in and integrated smarty via composer so far. Also several more packages are in the pipeline.
There’s also ongoing work to migrate all the front end assets into a standard directory(that can be freely moved at any time) via bower.
I thought it would be helpful for other developers to see that the modernization project is really alive and kicking so I’ve posted the branch I’m working on now, the Logger class. See https://github.com/robertdown/openemr/tree/logger
apigility is a tool that can be considered to develop a Restfull API interface for OpenEMR without having to develop a lot of code in php
for more information about apiagility : www.apiagility.org