Are the syntax changes being announced anywhere, or are they simply in commit logs for now as things are still in flux?  Some of the clean up here involved syntax improvements I wasn't aware of (although it doesn't appear that anything has broken).

It just not announced broadly because well it was something only 2 or 3 of use have been using. Once the PipelineTask demo is done and we have a more concrete system there will be a meeting to decide on best practices and writing info. (I did try and tell you about template names two weeks ago , but your work was in a different thought space so i probably should have followed up)