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 It makes more sense to require CI, even though that makes the platform policy a bit out of date.
Although a worrying amount of the rest of the release process is still manual. ↩︎