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I actually first heard of this as I once again did my semi-daily delurk in the mailing list and skimmed the last couple days of email. Must have missed the first couple of posts, but picked up on some interesting replies to the original "manifesto" of sorts. I don't have much right to comment much on this. I haven't used Squeak in a while, the last time was to generate spiral and line and then embed the contents of a CD's readme file in the spiral so we could print it and "put the readme file on the CD". At one time, I was really excited about Squeak. I don't know why the fascination didn't hold. I still follow the list, but I don't hold it for it being the revolution that I hoped once upon a time (yes, I know, projects like Squeak need more people that actually contribute code, and less people like me that wish it solved all of their problems). I think the always almost-done-and-starting-over-again VM efforts wore me down.

I don't know what to make of Goran's "declaration." I guess Squeak wasn't going anywhere in a hurry lately, so it can't be worse. In general, I distrust group assertions like this. Having observed a number of open source projects for a number of years now, it seems that these sort of "public leadership gyrations" often don't bode well for project health. They often seem endemic of fascination more with "administrivia" than "producing code." But then there's the exceptions too. It'll be interesting to see how this unfolds. Hopefully for the better.