PDEPE alternative

[Ryan Michael Ward]

Greetings,
I am new to this list. I ran into this page a little while ago: 
http://wiki.octave.org/Summer_of_Code_Project_Ideas looking around for Octave 
based alternatives to MatLab's PDEPE pde solver. I see that it is listed as a 
potential SoC project. 

Does anyone know what the status is on this? Has anyone attempted this project?

Thanks

By the way, I did search the both wiki and the manual for this information and 
did not see anything. If I happened to miss it, please accept my apologies- I 
kindly request a pointer in the right direction.