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Date:      Fri, 16 Mar 2001 23:00:56 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein)
Cc:        mij@osdn.com (Jim Mock), steveo@eircom.net (Steve O'Hara-Smith), arch@FreeBSD.ORG, jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org (j mckitrick), jkh@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: More BETA evilness Re: BETA induced nervousness
Message-ID:  <200103162300.QAA17472@usr07.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010316134113.I29888@fw.wintelcom.net> from "Alfred Perlstein" at Mar 16, 2001 01:41:13 PM

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> FYI I'm fighting this cause on the -arch list, I've just quoted
> this message and added cc's to the people who have the authority
> to fix it.
> 
> I want to be clear that it's not just me that's irritated by this.
> 
> My current solution is instead of -BETA have -STABLE-RC, the
> '-RC' is there to give knowledgeable people a heads-up and
> the '-STABLE' is prominent enough to reduce the amount of
> concern.

[...]

> > > ---------------------- 
> > > DO NOT PANIC - BETA is a normal phase that STABLE goes through prior
> > > to the rolling of a release. If anything it is *MORE* stable than
> > > usual during BETA as all changes are monitered by the release
> > > engineer.
> > > ----------------------

???

	-STABLE++
	-MORE-STABLE
	-METASTABLE

Heh.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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