I just publish my first branch of drizzle on one of their code cleanups. Well it just replaces their own list -> std::list from the stl container templates. To see if its better/faster: https://code.launchpad.net/~herron-philip
Its nearly done just missing 2 functions to be implemented. I hope to get some bug fixes done 
But i hope my code gets in cause it would be awesome i feel a little like this:
trying to help!
