[bitcoin-dev] Absent authors and BIP updates

[Luke Dashjr]

On Tuesday 23 July 2019 15:09:02 Karl-Johan Alm via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> People come in as Bitcoin developers all the time, but sometimes
> people also leave permanently. In the case of BIP authors, when a user
> leaves and does not respond to (reasonable) requests to change their
> BIPs, we are sort of stuck right now.

BIP 2 allows assigning a new champion.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0002.mediawiki#Transferring_BIP_Ownership