Regard­ing the bench­mark­ing frame­work – that’s me. Yes, I’m most­ly out of time right now, but I’d like to offer help if some­one wants to pick up the project. It con­sists of a tinderbox-like build script for a build serv­er, a script to run bench­marks on at least one slave, and a data­base and web front­ed to aggre­gate and visu­al­ize results. The frame­work is designed specif­i­cal­ly to track per­for­mance over time by com­pare revi­sions of FreeB­SD, every­thing else being equal.
The frame­work does work as-is, but it real­ly needs to be updat­ed. CVS -> SVN, bet­ter visu­al­iza­tion on the web front­ed, and a bench­mark­ing script that is eas­i­er to extend. Also, I don’t have hard­ware avail­able to run the benchmarks.
If you’re inter­est­ed, just Google for my email address.