AOKP is not dead. Although things have considerably slowed as some of us 'veteran' members have gotten busy in other aspects of life. However, there is still a talented pool of people working on the project.
Much of the background work for L is underway (Tom appears to have Mako booting as of today). Much of this work happens in the background, or possibly pushed directly to github. (https://github.com/AOKP?query=). No need to run this type of stuff through Gerrit.
As with nearly all new releases, we have to re-do a lot of code, port forward etc. However, each time we do this, we re-write and modularize more and more of our code to try and help make the next port a little easier
TL;DR. Not dead, just a little sleepy.
Much of the background work for L is underway (Tom appears to have Mako booting as of today). Much of this work happens in the background, or possibly pushed directly to github. (https://github.com/AOKP?query=). No need to run this type of stuff through Gerrit.
As with nearly all new releases, we have to re-do a lot of code, port forward etc. However, each time we do this, we re-write and modularize more and more of our code to try and help make the next port a little easier
TL;DR. Not dead, just a little sleepy.