With regard to development efforts, jtoomim: I'll merge any pull requests from you from now on that pass a quick review (I don't have means to test currently). If you want, we can discuss giving you push access to
https://github.com/p2pool/p2pool.
Sounds good. 1mb_hardforked isn't quite ready for master yet, as it hasn't been tested with any altcoins -- this commit (
https://github.com/jtoomim/p2pool/commit/fe9179e4a81543aadfcc840c0697df0aa475748f) in particular worries me -- but once I've tested it at least with one altcoin and have investigated the timezone issue a bit better, I'll put in a PR.