Its not completely dead. I was pretty busy this summer and didn't have a lot of time to get around to it. I've fixed p2pool in the 0.3.2 branch and I'm going to merge it into master since its the only branch I want to deal with anymore. I'm not sure about some of my other decisions regarding moving everything into a stats.db file. I'm going to try and integrate a dht into bithopper to help with the deepbit lp problem.