Isn't the code whereby miners get coins from a stash already in place?
We should not need to change the total number of coins, as said above that was already set from the start, that was the whole point of the coin in fact.
Assuming the stash idea is already in place anyone is free to contribute to it at any time.
Also anyone can do transactions on the blockchain, with fees, to provide fees for the miners to collect.
So I do not see any need for any change, unless the stash part isn't in the current code.
The stash should be implemented without any change to total number of coins.
I am not sure what you mean about resurrecting the merged-mined coins, except maybe that because some of them seem to have lost their announce threads I have not been able to post to threads for some of them announcing they are part of the game and showing as an example of their current value a table of the values of other things as priced in terms of them.
If you peruse the list of values I posted earlier showing the values of other things in terms of the computed value of IXCoin based on the treasury the Ixians put together you will hopefully notice the list includes GRouPcoin (GRP), CoiLedCoin (CLC) and GeistGeld (XGG) as well as the three that are still apparently being merged by at least one large pool, DVC IXC and I0C.
All now have treasuries from which their values shown are being calculated. So I suspect the answer to your question is they never died so did not need any resurrection but yeah okay you can think of them as having now been resurrected.
The two original Scrypt coins that preceded Litecoin (FBX and TBX) are also there, and also have treasuries, it might be a good idea to make them merged-mine-able alongside Litecoin and DOGE too if we are going to start updating the code of coins again.
I will probably have to upload new tables to
http://galaxies.mygamesonline.org/digitalisassets.html soon as folks have been busy piling more assets into their treasuries so the previous tables are already out of date, generally probably showing lower values than we will see when the next ones are uploaded.
-MarkM-