Sure, although I don't have much to announce, glad to hear from everyone who is interested. Its own mailing list is used to discuss development. The project is currently useful.
# build wheels for pyramid and all of its dependencies:
pip wheel -w /tmp/wheelbase pyramid
# install pyramid and its dependencies fast, without consulting the network:
pip install --use-wheel --no-index --find-links=/tmp/wheelbase pyramid
If you would like to help, come to python-dev to discuss getting the PEPs accepted, a pre-requisite for being merged into mainline pip. We seem to have stalled on the digital signature features but the rest of the design is non-controversial. There's also the disruptive suggestion to switch away from - as the separator between filename parts.
Daniel