The first standalone utility has been released! template_merge is a tool for parameterizing text based configuration files. From the documentation:

Template_merge is a perl program that allows you to output text based files that are the result of
a parameterized template that is merged with various anchor types.  It is useful for creating generic 
templates that can be merged to create site or job specific files to be used by downstream processes.

The classic case would be to create a template for your Cisco IOS configuration. You could start by 
doing a "show run" on a device.  You would then determine each portion of the config that will change 
from device to device.  Those portions would be replaced with an appropriate anchor that will get its 
value from another location such as an upstream database.  This would now allow you to execute a 
template_merge that can output a device specific configuration for any number of similarly configured 
IOS devices.

There is now also a ticketing system and a forum system in place for these projects. You will find links specifically to those template_merge sections in the template_merge page