Status of RARS

[privat]

Hi, since a year, we are using RARS in an academic setting at the Université du Québec à Montreal for the assembly course INF2171 (https://inf2171.uqam.ca/ if you're curious).
We have chosen RARS as the main tool as it is a beginner course, and we needed a powerful but simple IDE to develop in assembly and inspect the result with the runtime simulation.

We added more features and bug fixes https://github.com/privat/rars and wanted to integrate our code upstream. I did some PR and contacted the maintainer, but there was no real answer.
Currently, stopped submitting PR. Our fork is active, but we want again to reach the maintainer and other users and contributor of RARS to know :

1. what is the current status of the project ? Is it maintained or is @TheThirdOne MIA, bored or really busy with other things?
2. are some other people interested in using or contributing to RARS ?