it has been ailing, because all of our resources were focused on AA. Having said that, several devs have been working on it the past few weeks. I'd say it's not dead, and in fact may turn the corner at some point.
NB: I'm not doing any of the work myself, so take with a grain of salt.
The current news is that the project has been placed on ice. We might use the currently stored data to generate an updated set of Informant/BtmScanner databases, but after that the project will likely die. We will probably be using the armory for our item database stuff moving forward.