Exactly, and while they certainly don't have to do any of that, when you have commercial developers counting on you, you will lose your community over time with

Exactly, and while they certainly don't have to do any of that, when you have commercial developers counting on you, you will lose your community over time with a mantra of "Fuck you." Also, while you could go digging through tickets to figure out what's holding it up, why have a release manager? It seems as though the honeymoon has been over for some time with rails anyway. Between arrogent devs and the Rails 3 delay, I've moved on.