Heh, nice trick, invent a problem, propose a fix, and insist that it be done, while telling anyone pointing at the man behind the curtain that they are wrong, and failing to answer their questions.
Let's see. Problem as Mario stated it, which I happen to agree with:
"Slime 1.2.1 tarball is outdated."
Mario's proposed fix:
"I can make new tarballs if that is ok with Slime developers."
Your man behind the curtain:
"SBCL developers aren't nice, and #lisp isn't too helpfull."
While I can agree with your sentiments I don't see the relevance here: there is a demonstrated need for tarballs (people behind company firewalls can't always get at CVS), and unless you want to claim 1.2.1 as being up to date new ones are needed. Whether they are releases or automagic CVS snapshots is a different, but equally unrelated to SBCL and #lisp, issue.
Cheers,
-- Nikodemus Schemer: "Buddha is small, clean, and serious." Lispnik: "Buddha is big, has hairy armpits, and laughs."