Fun enough I got the same feeling. Do you remember this etoy 3.8 release that should have been done fast and last more than a couple of month and after no communication with 3.9 at all. Or the fork of Croquet. So Marcus do not worry I can tell you that we are not paranoid and I will not let anybody damage us. And now we are even considered as the bad guy not wanted to merge.... I believe that people gets afraid by Pharo or have time to show us that we are wrong (of course some may want to really collaborate). For now I will not discuss that point anymore on this list because we do not make any progress and we do not have to justify ourselves.
The croquet people namely (andreas) are on my case, and he clearly gets this concept since he based his "running for the board" email on it.
The cobalt people = matthew and others, they "get it", and are using some of the tools, and proposing common libraries.
Bertf has expressed an interest in etoys moving up to 3.10+ if the transition can be eased.
I'm curious to see what they would gain. And as if merging two streams would be that easy.
So interestingly, all these peope never had *any* interest in cooperating on anything.
Etoys ignored 3.9 *completely*. (and all my activity to merge etoys back before that was always done not with that much enthusiasm from their side. I got some bit of help from Bert and Michael, but the activity always came from my side).
Andreas disapeared for years (just to pee on us for a good laugh on and off).
So I really wonder why they all changed their mind suddenly. Seriously.
Marcus