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Date:      Wed, 4 Sep 1996 13:55:34 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Food for thought
Message-ID:  <199609040425.NAA03285@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <v02140b10ae527e78dfb3@[208.2.87.4]> from "Richard Wackerbarth" at Sep 3, 96 08:09:01 pm

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Richard Wackerbarth stands accused of saying:
>
> I disagree about the adequacy of "snap" releases. Jordan seems to get them
> out perhaps once a month. (I'm not faulting him) There are those who want
> to help check out things with much less latency, like maybe a day. The only
> problem is that they don't want to spend all of their time just getting the
> build to work.

You are totally beyond reason, I'm afraid.  You want stuff to be "stable", 
but you expect the whole testing process to produce a lag of less than a
_day_?  What sort of billion-dollar empire do you think FreeBSD inc. is??

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