[arusahni]

It definitely looks like Octopress development has tapered off. As you can tell, I haven't had to do this research for a while :-)

It looks like a lot of Octopress users have migrated to vanilla Jekyll for their needs.

[Kihashi]

Yeah. From what I remember, Octopress was designed to take Jekyll from static site generator to Blog engine (i.e. automate the manual stuff to set up a blog). Jekyll has since cribbed significantly from Octopress to make it much easier to approach for that use case.