So go use their launcher if you can't wait for FtB...
I hope that's not too snarky but I'm getting tired of all the posts from people who haven't got a clue regarding:
1) Programming
2) Project Management
3) Dependence on other products to be completed before you can even start
4) Volunteers are people too, with real lives, who cannot be treated as Slave Labor just because you want to play a game now. They tend to "Unvolunteer" themselves after a while and then where are you?
5) The fallacious belief that "the Customer is Always Right", and deserves regular detailed reports on the progress of something they haven't paid for. You don't even get that on products costing thousands, unless the producer is using the info as advertising to pump up sales.
Instead of bringing up that "other guys have done the job, why can't you?" you should just go play those other guy's products, at least until FtB finishes.
Administrators: Give me infraction points if you must, but I felt I had to say this.