Am I right in assuming that - going forward - commits won't be squashed (more than needed)? I imagine it'll be educational for the community to be able to follow the train of thought and storyline of future developments.

I think this would be good, unless you really need to for some reason, try to avoid squashing future commits. P.S. I just subscribed to the list so I can't easily reply normally, but imagine this is a reply to: "Open-sourcing of the RIPE NCC’s RPKI core software" https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/routing-wg/2022-February/004510.html -Cynthia