Marionette is focused on using AspectJ to splice into broken or clumsy parts of existing OSS systems, and exposing new hooks for controlling these systems. Currently, it consists of a tap into the Maven 2.0.x application that allows Before, Around, After(Any, Error, Failure) advice types to decorate a mojo execution. However, this principle can be applied much more broadly, to improve Maven and other projects even further. Once these taps are developed, each project will be rebuilt with Vampire Tap in place, and released as variant distributions. Currently, the project only has one committer: me. The project has just graduated the proof-of-concept phase, where I put together integration tests to prove that these advice types can be imposed on Maven's build process to control mojo execution. At present, the project has no public face at all, and no community.