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Re: It is time for a feature freeze (it is NOW or never).


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: It is time for a feature freeze (it is NOW or never).
Date: 05 May 2004 11:24:37 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50

Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden> writes:

> I personally believe that the most logical thing would be to call the
> next release "21.4".  The NEWS has always described all changes as to
> be made in 21.4.

The NEWS in CVS is read by developers.  Nobody ever claimed that it
was a realiable document before the release.

> Skipping a number like "21.5" might confuse people and make them
> believe that there was a "21.4" which they somehow "missed".  If a
> sysadmin updates to 21.5, I am sure plenty of people are going to
> believe there was a 21.4, which just never got updated to,

Well, if they believe that, where is the problem?

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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