Volker Nitsch wrote:

> 1) Why is Lex not in this group? His "universes"-approach sounds
> pretty reasonable to me. He is actually *doing* leadership here IMHO.
> Locking him out sounds like a very bad move.
> 
Yes, I think it is a good idea to have Lex in this group too.

> 2) What is bad about forking? I read a lot about packaging and debian
> here. Well, there are the BSD's too. Lots of forks, but sharing a lot
> of code.
>
Again yes - at least partly. Not lots of forks, but very few forks. 
Originally I thought Squeak should try not to fork, but after quite some 
people suggested otherwise, among them Avi, Ned and Lex, and after I saw 
how things develop, I changed my mind on this.

For me the prime candidate for a fork is the "researchers" image of the 
Berne Group.

regards,
Martin