Please have a look on the project page at http://tangara.colombbus.org to get more information about this educational IDE.
The current step contains the following task:
- to move the code from our internal SVN to github,
- remove hardcoded and commited dependencies,
- rebuild the build procedure
- refactor the offline help engine (bye bye javahelp, welcome embedded jetty)
Build procedure is described in build environment page.
More details on wiki