visibility of release process

[bf]

I'd also appreciate a little more frequent updating of the release
schedule, maybe with some terse "we're waiting on this ... " notes,
like there were for some past releases. I'd guess the amount of time
involved in doing so would be modest.

> * subversion. Without checking out the whole repository, it is a  
> little hard to use this as a news source and emails to the commit list  
> still look more like cvs than svn so it is a bit hard to see which  
> branch commits are going to. [3]

Other than the comments that have already been made about the 
subject and the body of the messages, what's the matter with
the other svn-src-stable-* or other svn-src-* mailing lists, some
of which will focus more closely on those commits affecting the release(s)?
Or, as someone suggested recently on one of the lists, something like:

svn log -v -r '{2008-2-27}:HEAD' svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/7/

Regards,
           b.