Pings.
Sounds like an investigation will be warranted... embezzlement, perhaps?
Idiots for joining on. Once a project gets to a size like this it would be a good idea to set up a company and have the lead devs be company officers.
This is one thing that troubles people about using some open source. Don’t trust your business to anything that doesn’t have a solid organizational structure. One guy getting hit by a bus or deciding to walk away shouldn’t cause a whole project die.
Handbrake’s main developer disappeared for quite a while too, putting the whole project in jeopardy. Luckily, the other devs forked it. Then the original developer came back and they joined the tree again.
And it's personally annoying, since I have CentOS as the basis for a number of servers at work. Not that it'll suddenly stop running, but the future doesn't look bright for upgrade releases, etc....