Sad to see with so many coming into Scrypt mining now that we're stuck with no more updates. Hoping that the Scrypt fork gets off the ground, wish I still had some programming skills.
In my opinion there's no need for a fork. All that is needed is for someone to contribute to bfgminer. It is only if nobody decides to contribute to bfgminer that scrypt and GPU support will probably be axed from that as well.
There's lots of folks on the Litecoin forum forking cgminer and I get emails from folks also interested in forking. To me it just seems like a much more straight forward and beneficial path to improve the scrypt support in bfgminer.
Personally, as the developer of a GUI miner, I'd much rather just support one miner backend. Version 2.0 will have many more features because I don't have to code to the "lowest common denominator" backend. Even if a fork of cgminer were to become popular and widely used, I'd have to see a significant advantage to switch back to supporting multiple backends.