[Jython-users] State of the language 2018-01-01?

[Mike R. <mro...@ya...>]

Hi,
Jython is my favourite language but it's not exactly mainstream. Looking at the decline in the number of postings to this group I was getting the impression that interest has been declining since 2007.
At jython.org the latest reference there is to 2.7.0, May 2015.
Imagine my surprise, then, when doing a bit of general searching about using Jython and Gradle, to find this page: github.com/jythontools/jython - said to be "a mirror" of jython.org!

Here I find that the latest readme was updated a month ago... It's not signed or dated but makes reference to a talk by Jim Baker in 2015.  But the Jython version here is 2.7.2a.  An alpha version... so, for one thing, how come 2.7.1 is not present in beta at jython.org?
At bugs.jython.org/issue2182 I also find Jim Baker himself saying in March 2016 that use of Gradle is a "top priority" for 2.7.2.
I've always assumed that jython.org was the place to go to find out what's the latest in the language... but I just did a search for "gradle" there and nothing came up: one's impression at that site, presumably intended to be the home of all things Jython, is that nothing at all has happened to the language since 2015.
So two questions: 
1) where's the best URL to bookmark to keep up with the latest in what the developers are doing (is it maybe github?)2) is there an idiot's guide anywhere to using 2.7.2a with Gradle?

  
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 Thanks ... and keep up the good work!Mike