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To: Jason Watkins <jwatkins@firstplan.com>
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Subject: Re: Staying *really stable* in FreeBSD
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Jason Watkins wrote:
> 
> And this would be different than -stable how?
> 
> >> Then we (paranoid and lazy types) can just cvsup that tag without
> >> needing to change from RELENG_X_Y to RELENG_X_Y+1 and RELENG_X+1_0.
> 
> Don't camoflage one problem by providing a solution to another. What you're
> really worried about is how stable -stable is. Address that, and things will
> be better than managing:
> 
> -its_not_stable_but_we_pretend
> -stable
> -yet_more_stable
> -so_stable_its_more_stale_than_the_cheesewiz_in_my_house

[This is slightly paraphrased, I can't remember the exact lines]
Mr. Burns:  How are my shares of Confederated Slaveholdings?
Sycophant Investors: They're...stable.

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