That's odd. What the src committers usually tell me, when I have my bugmeister-advocate hat on, is that they post patches and then no one comments until after they check them in, at which time they complain. This discourages them from going through this the next time.

You will also note that some of the large commits say "MFp4" or "MF: <projectname>". That means that either our Perforce repository, or SVN project/ directory, were used as staging areas. It's possible to subscribe to these email messages. (Exactly how is left as an exercise for the reader; the hour is getting late.)

As for the research lab/company commits, I'm sure you'd complain equally if the code that these groups develop in-house and then release when it's in some kind of stable state, instead didn't get released at all.

But, of course, I'm wasting my time trying to give you reasoned arguments about why FreeBSD does one thing or another. AFAICT you're only interested in spreading FUD about what we do, how we do it, and what we say about it before, during, and afterwards. You seem to be obsessed by picking over semantics and finding shortcomings to be aggreived over.

Whatever patches or review you've contributed to date, to my mind, are like the last tiny little bits of onion that are left over after one peels off all the outer layers. There may be something to it, but the effort to get down to that point is so painful that it's not worth it.

tl;dr: your drama outweighs your contributions.

mcl