There’s been a lot going on as far as development goes with the latest alternative clients and the Segwit2x plan also known as BTC1 on Github. One particular subject that came up on the BTC1 repository was the idea to incentivize the development community with time-locked bitcoins to smoothly activate a hard fork.
https://news.bitcoin.com/how-time-locked-bitcoins-could-incentivize-smooth-hard-forks/