And I always do what I say... There is no point in working on adapting the full patch set to a moving target and a viewer plagued with serious bugs...
Rumours are something, simple logic is another. The next viewer will probably be the "viewer 2009", with a fully reworked UI, given LL wants to have their viewer easier to use for the mundane (and often computer illiterate) user... It means that even if some of the concepts developed in Snowglobe will be used for the viewer 2009, the actual code will be very different and will need a full rewrite of many patches... It is therefore not worth working on Snowglobe right now.