people who signed the message in the mailing list of SegWit2x are the ONLY reason why people are saying the fork is not going to happen or canceled! there were no other indications. of course apart from ViaBTC now signalling for bitcoin cash instead of NYA but i think that happened after the email was released.

and all about this can be considered as good news in my opinion. now there is no risk of any kind of split as it was before.