Bram's last post was 10/21/13, and a month later Bjorn confirmed in his fork that he could reliably freeze VIM and had segfaults that he had yet to fix. The final word seemed to be:
"There are enough vim users out there (myself among them) to warrant supporting a fork for as long as we're around. We'll try to keep it up to date with the latest changes."
I don't think anyone should expect Bram to chase them down for updates to the patch. Reading through the discussion, it seems clear to me that while good-natured, the feature was not ready to be merged into VIM.
