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.