It was bounced back and forth but nothing was really ever done about it. I am nit sure if it was because the witnesses has no access to the code or because they were led to believe there were other priorities. Sadly, since development was slow coming out, things didnt change much.

That is not the case now. As we see from the linked article, this was something that was put in motion 3 months ago. Look at how far we came in a short period of time. We will see what else needs to be done on top of these changes.