Actually, @valtron’s quite busy, from what he has told me in our email convos.
That’s why progress has stagnated a bit. It also means it will take much longer for him to get WLM 2009 to work with Escargot. 
(As for me and YMSG protocol implementation, read here: Escargot and YMSG (Yahoo! Messenger) - #33 by OhHelloThereImTheGuy)