TAP is something that I invested a lot of time years ago, but nowadays I rarely have time to maintain any project, or contribute to the project (which is active on GitHub now https://github.com/testanything, but before we had only a Wiki that would be offline and be restored from some backup a few times :)

This is what I ended up being involved with:

- Joined the mailing lists, and updated the Wiki. Eventually joined the new GitHub org

- Created tap4j, using an existing implementation as reference (contacted the author, who helped with some questions too) https://github.com/tupilabs/tap4j

- Created instanttap to validate the TAP streams - http://instanttap.appspot.com/ (surprised it's still working)

- Created Jenkins TAP Plugin

- Updated Jenkins TestLink Plugin to support TAP

- Wrote a quick producer for GoogleTest https://github.com/kinow/gtest-tap-listener

- And wrote a few articles and presented the solution and/or TAP in conferences

- And created the reddit r/testanythingprotocol subreddit to collect links I found about TAP

IMO, TAP was going in the right direction. If it had been adopted by Python or JUnit, it would be much more popular now.