The final report is now up on my weekly reports thread. I will likely still post there in the future to update everyone on the current status of the project, this is just the final report of the GSOC period.
Also:
@CybranM You’ll notice I was not able to expose more settings in the knife tool modal map. I tried it but it appeared to break a few things and so I will have to look into this further in the future.
@DotBow I also tried making middle-mouse + alt panning work but was unsuccesful, I will look into it more in the future as well.