Due to being busy with other things, I have not directly done any work on Qeditas since December. Nevertheless, I have been exchanging private messages with someone who has been experimenting with his own fork of the code. I must admit I haven't looked closely at his progress, but hope to spend some time reviewing it soon. Perhaps he will want to say more.
OK. I can give a short summary of what I've been doing.
In January I tried using a fork of Clams to do the networking and database storage for Qeditas. This worked well enough that I had two or three nodes running a testnet for about a week. There were problems though and I don't think it makes sense to inherit a lot of code and dependencies that aren't needed. So now I'm trying to directly code the networking and database code in ocaml with the rest of Qeditas.
One technical point might be worth mentioning: I got rid of "frames" entirely. Now ledger trees (ctrees) are always stored and communicated as "elements" -- essentially 9 levels with hashes summarizing the lowest levels (except leaves).
It's like fixing the "frame" to be one that abstracts every nine levels.
If all goes well, at some point I should be able to get some kind of testnet running. If so, I'll say more about how others can run a testnet node too. But I don't know if "at some point" will be next month or next year. Even at that point, I wouldn't recommend starting a mainnet until the testnet has run without a problem for a few months and people have had a chance to review the code.