One of the selling points was a "fork" of cgminer (I am a mod on IRC #cgminer and do testing of cgminer). Well established and always forked.
The software chainminer using "getwork" REALLY, it seems even a year after it's release, you have a patch work solution for stratum, the major protocol of mining pools.
chainminer has no relation to cgminer. Putin's comments on he'll work on it when he can, shows his priorities.
I asked specifically if Dave was sending a board to Con and Kano and he said he would, he didn't, guess it's another fail or bad decision.
I'm working on a mining client written in Go to support my bitfury miners which have additional I2C hardware and bank switching which requires slightly different code than chainminer. It will support bfsb-style miners as well. Are you or anyone else interested in getting involved with the project?