# Monthly DevOps Logs

**URL:** https://discourse.haskell.org/t/monthly-devops-logs/10103
**Category:** Haskell Foundation
**Created:** [August 6, 2024, 9:13am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/monthly-devops-logs/10103 "2024-08-06T09:13:13Z")
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> [@janus](#):
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> But as far as I understand, the only issue with FreeBSD is the issue fixed in [MR 13276](https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/13276)

No, there’s another, bigger issue.

To maintain release quality, release artifacts are only generated through CI. No manual process is used.\[1\]

As long as there are no FreeBSD CI resources, there will be no FreeBSD releases.

The platform policy says, “[For Tier 2] we rely on community support for developing, testing, and building distributions.” In the past, third parties would build distribution packages. That doesn’t happen anymore. I can only assume it was a high-friction process. It makes more sense to require CI, even though that makes the platform policy a bit out of date.

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1. Although a worrying amount of the rest of the release process is still manual.

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