I'm not sure, but why don't we raise funds for the development team that can do this (maybe it's a bad idea).
I think we should act more active rather than passively wait for volunteers.
This has also been discussed many times in the past, but finding a coder willing to step up (huge task) as well as people who are willing to donate has proven impossible unfortunately. I've read through this thread many times & it seems some users think that either there is no need for development because it's perfect already, or that it is some kind of crime to even think about it - so nothing happens & miners go elsewhere.
**waits for torrent of abuse**
I don't think it's that people think it's perfect already... it's that people haven't come up with a better way to do it. A number of ideas have been thrown around, but none solve the problems inherent in the system. As much as we all want p2pool to represent a larger percentage of the network hash, if it were to do so, then the miners would experience more and more variance as share difficulty rose. Nobody's been able to come up with a way to manage that, and nobody's willing to simply translate the pool code from python to C. Heck, windpath even started a bounty months ago to get some work done. Nobody took him up on the offer.