Peter, good point.  I re-read your proposal before actually sending an announcement to squeak-dev, and realized that the candidate list should stay up during the sign-up period.  In the actual announcement I said that new candidates could come forward during the sign-up period.

Here's my post to squeak-dev:
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2006-February/100549.html