htodd

Well that explains some things.

It’s still live. From time to time I get a flood of svn emails – it never seemed like it was each commit. It is the only way I know to find out that WordPress had updated because a new commit would be tagged and I’d see that email.

lists.wordpress.org still is live and I was able to change my email through the email interface.

This leads to two questions:
1) am I not supposed to have access to the commit emails?
2) is there a better way to find out when a new wordpress is released?