Hi!
LN docs are out of date, last version has been release on Jul 16, 2015, and requires rejected BIP62.
Bitcoin is moving forward, I expect SegWit to be released in 2016 into production.
Is LN team alive? Do they have plans to use SW? How can I contact anyone from LN team? Is
contact@lightning.network email working?
To my opinion, LN is the most important project for scalability.