FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

[Mark Blackman]

On 26 Jan 2012, at 14:37, John Baldwin wrote:

> On Thursday, January 19, 2012 4:33:40 pm Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> On 19 January 2012 09:47, Mark Saad <nonesuch at longcount.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> What could I do to help make 7.5-RELEASE a reality ?
>>> 
>> 
>> Put your hand up and volunteer to run the 7.5-RELEASE release cycle.
> 
> That's not actually true or really fair.  There has to be some buy-in from the 
> project to do an official release; it is not something that a single person
> can do off in a corner and then have the Project bless the bits as an official 
> release.

And raises the interesting question for an outsider of 

a) who is "the project" in this case
and
b) what does it take for a release to be a release?

Wasn't there a freebsd-releng (or similar) mailing list ages ago?

I didn't spot an active one at http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/

- Mark