Prioritized list of features?

I'm still getting used to Git, but what I believe we can do is set up multiple remotes. For instance, you've got your master branch on the origin remote that you can push to e.g.

$git push origin master

You can set up a drupal remote like this

$ git remote add drupal git://[drupal]/[contrib]/[project].git

And then fetch/merge with it in your local repo e.g.

$ git fetch drupal
$ git merge drupal/master

And then push to it when necessary

$ git push drupal master

I think in the future, we'll keep our projects in our personal repos as well as contrib.

The more I look at what I'm doing with arbitrary output device support and what you've built with Omega, the more I want to start folding my work into this incredible base you've built.

I'm going to spend a couple days going through the code and wrapping my head around Omega and the startkit. Right off the bat I can see that I'll be able to contribute with the HTML5 update/variant (I've always imagined this as a binary theme setting) and sidebar layouts. Also I'm pretty handy with jQuery and persnickety UI pieces.

As I mentioned this weekend, I'm more than glad to accept the help... I've pretty much had to leave the D6 version in the dust just to focus on D7 (which is all I really care about at this point) And with all the things I'd like to see in the Omega codebase to promote adoption, it's much more than a one-coder job (unless I want to be coding it for the next year!!)

In other news, I seem to be getting bashed for starting a GDO group for a theme/module... (don't ask) Even though there are plenty of them on GDO. So it MAY be that I go back to setting up an atrium instance offsite to handle this kind of stuff...

That, plus the inability to post video content/screencasts really makes me hate the GDO option. Pondering the options and time to setup. (no longer to setup atrium really than configure a GDO group to be pretty and useful with panels)

Jesse,

I've made a lot of updates to the Github branch of Omega in the last few days.
I've changed the zones into renderable elements, and also put in a core of HTML5 templates (that likely need a LOT of massaging)

My goal was to make sure that the basis was there when I release Beta1 (very shortly, but probably after the git migration just to save my sanity)

I'd love it if you could update your fork, and play around with that latest version on github!!
https://github.com/himerus/Omega

The HTML5 code is solid. I would have made the same changes. One thing I did notice is that you declare position:relative on the new HTML elements.

article, header, footer, nav, section {
display: block; position: relative;
}

I would set them to position:static as a reset value.

There are some architectural structures in your code that I found astounding. The preprocess includes are fantastic.

In terms of CSS, this is what I would propose, let me know what you think. The defaults in Omega (defaults.css, tables.css, menus.css, etc) should be stripped of all "presentation" styling, e.g. borders, font colors, most left/right padding and margin, and backgrounds. I like to put all of this presentation information into a stylesheet named after the theme, in this case omega.css. In this way, the theme can be stripped of all ornamentation by excluded one file, instead of overriding numerous styles across several sheets.

Check out the five.css file in this theme (https://github.com/jessebeach/five-drupal/blob/master/css/five.css) and compare it to the screen.css file (https://github.com/jessebeach/five-drupal/blob/master/css/screen.css). By excluding the five.css from the theme, the basic structural properties are not lost - the content still centers on the page on monitors and forms a single column on small-screen devices. But it has zero ornament styling. It's my opinion (and this may be wrong), but sub-themers don't really want to start from scratch structurally, they want to start from scratch presentationally.

What do you think? Mind if I take a crack at splitting the styles up along these lines?

Excellent idea Jesse!