I tried to apply about a month ago and tried again this morning but it says that it's not accepting new signups.

I'd like to be notified of how certain projects are going.

dev.xoops.org is a site for development. There is anonymous access to the various projects and their forums, but to access the internal dev-2-dev forums etc. you need to sign up a project you want to work on - or join an existing project.

A little something-for-something arrangement
I'll post a little message asking people to be more open as to how the development is coming along in order to make the site usable to also the curious bystanders