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Date:      Wed, 15 Jan 2003 00:42:18 -0500
From:      David Cuthbert <dacut@kanga.org>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.0 RC3 now available
Message-ID:  <3E24F4BA.3090508@kanga.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030114143017K.hanche@math.ntnu.no>
References:  <2F03DF3DDE57D411AFF4009027B8C3670289D6B2@exchange-uk.isltd.insignia.com>	<20030114103822.GG61405@starjuice.net> <20030114143017K.hanche@math.ntnu.no>

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Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> Indeed.  There is an old story from the days of the big irons, when
> IBM had an "objective" release criterion stating that no new release
> of their OS would be shipped with more than 100 major bugs.
> 
> As a result, before each release, the engineers would have a big
> meeting with the purpose of redefining major bugs as minor bugs.

You make it sound like that doesn't happen anymore.  Ah, sadly, it does, 
and I've been known to be an unwilling participant... :-\

Though we actually go as far as to reclassify bugs as enhancement requests.




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