Hi,
I was very astonished about the publication by the ICINGA team at the mailinglist. I am not sure in which direction this is all going. PNP4Nagios and NagVis are important Nagios Plugins and if those developer starting a Nagios fork this might cause real trouble in the community.
I will contact some team members I know about the scope. I don't think that we will drop Nagios Support, it might be a feature request to support ICINGA in next releases, but this has to be discussed internally.
For now, you should read Ethan's note to this publication:
article.gmane.org/gmane.network.nagios.devel/6253