Thats a typo. The actual account was always u/smooth_xmr
I'm still around, just haven't had time to pay attention to aeon. No, I didn't run off with the fund (if someone wants to verify on the chain, the enormous output that I made for proof-of-reserves a while back has likely never been used at all since there are none other of that size that would have used it as a decoy).
What are the most urgent things that need to be done? I'll try to free up some time if needed.
Glad to know that you didn’t disappear silently. I don’t think there’s anything urgent right now, but IMO the real problem is that your responsiveness as a project maintainer is worryingly low. Quoting from
https://github.com/aeonix/aeon/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md:
The codebase is intentionally kept close to Monero's in order to benefit from the higher code reliability due to the larger source of peer reviewing available in Monero.
The above goal is achieved through the continuous effort of merging upstream improvements.
We’re supposed to continue updating the codebase till it catches up with Monero. The speed of update doesn’t have to be fast, but it should at least appear to be steady and alive. Your becoming inactive unexpectedly for more than 6 months is not good.
From this experience I realized that the fact that smooth is the only one who has control over the official github repos and the website, is a bad practice; if he dies suddenly we’re in trouble. I think we should have multiple people with the backup maintainer role. I think Monero does this way (not sure about other smaller coins like Wownero).
