Please add a listing to this page if you're working on Distutils (and help us reduce duplication of effort).

Cheese Shop / PyPI -- the central repository of python package metadata and distribution files.

Python Eggs -- an effort to produce single-file distributions of packages similar to Java JARs. See http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PythonEggs

PEPs for extending distutils / PyPI -- PEPs 262 "Database of Installed Python Packages" and 345 "Metadata for Python Software Packages 1.2" are currently open

Uraga -- an effort to develop a tool for download and installation of packages. See http://www.byteofpython.info/projects/uraga/uraga.html

Other efforts we know about:

Ian Bicking is looking to clean up and extend the use of release_urls in PyPI for use in [http://pythonpaste.org Paste].

Maurice Ling is looking at implementing PEP 262 as an academic project.

Geoffrey T. Dairiki has a bdist_deb command http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1054967&group_id=5470&atid=305470