It was not just a summer break, things been literally dead for several months, not only for the summer. But now people are getting that much needed injection of motivation (not to mention all that precious time needed for such projects) to get the work done for next release. Mind you, next release is still a long way ahead but now at least there seems to be a future, which you couldnt say the same few months back.
The guys over in the development and testing team is doing grand job with the hands they have. If you have any sort of talents when it comes to BF2 modding and you can spare the valuable time that we all have only a limited amount of, you should definitely take a chance at offering any kind of help you can to those guys.