Yes. People other than PJ have access to the private CK github/codebase. A private repo should be cloned and given to trusted alternative parties. Then, another repo should be pushed to public view with any sensitive information (like email addresses/IPs/etc.), hidden/removed.

This way, any interested developers can see the code without having to access the private CK slack and ask. As a matter of fact, CK should never of had a completely private slack. A private dev channel on the slack, fine, but people should be able to add themselves automatically to the CK slack without needing to contact anyone. Many other coins/projects have this self-service add feature.

If PJ or someone needs a fee for the private and public code repo stuff I have just outlined to happen, I will pay. But it won't be moronic Risto's "mad money" developer payments. ;P

Just want to remind everyone that PJ was paid at least 10k XMR around April of 2017 by Risto to work on CK. May have even been more (changelog wouldn't go back far enough for me to check). This is in addition to monthly payments from Risto for most of the life of this project. XMR was around $20 then, so that is $200k. Enough to live comfortably for a few years where PJ is located.

At current XMR prices, it is $4 million!

And what did Risto get for his money? NOTHING!

P.S. I don't care if PJ wasted his money. He had $200k in hand. He was given enough early this year to work for several years on this project. And if he had kept any of his XMR, rather than being a fool and going straight to Dubai once he was paid to blow it, he would probably still have hundreds of thousands of dollars in multiples.