Sounds like there is already some plans to keep Crunchbang alive, in what I think is a much better way anyway. As an Arch Linux user, I probably shouldn't be proclaiming my opinions
but forking a distro doesn't sit right with me, when all that changes is configuration setup -- which seems to be the case here.
Well, it seems like Crunchbang will become debian with a metapackage, distributed as a remastered debian installer. So I guess the news isn't too terrible for most people.