> It seems like the easiest answer is to fork the cryptography library
I would suggest that not only isn't the easiest answer, it's not an answer at all. Because...
> new maintainers and those on unsupported architectures can continue to use the C implementation
...there will be no new maintainers. This came up a few times three weeks ago, and so far, a (small!) number of people have hopefully suggested that it would be nice if "someone" volunteered, none of them have actually followed through, and as far as I can tell, interest as only waned since.
I would suggest that not only isn't the easiest answer, it's not an answer at all. Because...
> new maintainers and those on unsupported architectures can continue to use the C implementation
...there will be no new maintainers. This came up a few times three weeks ago, and so far, a (small!) number of people have hopefully suggested that it would be nice if "someone" volunteered, none of them have actually followed through, and as far as I can tell, interest as only waned since.