You do bring up an interesting point about future releases being based on LTS
only and then backporting necessary packages and fixes in the
"toutatis-backports" repostory. The repository exists, so why not use it?? If
6.0 does not come out soon, the release is 8-9 months after the Ubuntu
release it is based off of and only further pushes aside any chances of 6.5
and 7.0 staying on schedule.
Like many of you said, this is a one man team who has his priorities set
right now on his full time job and not Trisquel. Being a member and sending
more money this way has no guarantee if this will change or any proof that he
will use it towards this project. He rarely communicates with the community
and does not often listen to suggestions.
If this release pushes into 2013, then I believe there should be some soul
searching for a lot of Trisquel users to switch to another distro like
Parabola or go back to Ubuntu and purge out the non-free packages themselves.
