Ports Freeze for 6.2-RELEASE starts 10 Oct
After some days ”OfftheOffice”, this is the best new I have in my rss reader 
In preparation for the 6.2 release, the ports tree will be frozen from October 10 and as the “policies demand”:http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/policies_committing.html, no one can make any commit without the approval of portmgr.
Only commit that fix existing breakage will be allowed.
The schedule is here -> “*FreeBSD 6.2 Release Process*”:http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/schedule.html
*Important dates*
* 10 Sep - Code freeze begins
* 10 Oct - Ports tree frozen
* 12 Oct - RELENG_6_2 branch
* 17 Oct - Final package build starts
* 29 Oct - Release 6.2-RC2
* 09 Nov - Begin 6.2-RELEASE builds
* 13 Nov - Announcement
No Open Issues pending for 6.2, see the ->
“*6.2 - Release todo list*”:http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/todo.html
With all this infromation, I can say “We know what is appening with FreeBSD Project and for sure this is not ”being dead”” 
“*All FreeBSD Release Information*”:http://www.freebsd.org/releases/index.html