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Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity,
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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@longcount.org> wrote:
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>> What could I do to help make 7.5-RELEASE a reality ?
>>>=20
>>=20
>> Put your hand up and volunteer to run the 7.5-RELEASE release cycle.
>=20
> That's not actually true or really fair.  There has to be some buy-in =
from the=20
> 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=20
> release.

And raises the interesting question for an outsider of=20

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=