There was that note on the pull request that luke left mentioning he moved support there temporarily, only the note was there a while after it was merged in
Thanks - maxzilla and I have been talking in PMs.
I was just trying to avoid what seems like an unfortunately common trend (at least in this mining space) of forking projects to make something "new" rather than contributing back to the original project. I don't think that's what max was trying to do.