Looking forward to it! I hope I am not mistaken that e.g RawTherapee's LMMSE de-mosaicing, pyramid de-noising selectively applied using parametric masking, CIE CAM 02 (colour appearance model), and other goodies not found in mainstream processors will allow me to show you a thing or two If I'm wrong, then we know.
Sounds interesting - I am looking forward to seeing some results. Hopefully we will be able to compare versions