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To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: When is 2.2 Estimated to be released? 
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From: Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM>
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[...]
>> An interesting point:  If the -stable branch was not consuming the amount
>> of maintainence time that it has been, we'd most likely _have_ 4.4Lite-2
>> and PCMCIA integration, as well as a greatly debugged vm, vfs and kernel.
>
>Yes; I agree that splitting the maintenance from the developement is
>needed.  Having people like John, and David, et al spending time
>back-porting is a waste of their talents.

Just out of interest, a diff -c between the most recent releases and branches
(after stripping $Id$ changes etc) is about this:

2.0.5R -> 2.1.0R = about 10MB
2.1.0R -> 2.1-stable = about 6MB
2.1-stable -> 2.2-current = about 17MB.

The difference from -stable to -current is heading towards being twice the
size of the 2.0.5R -> 2.1.0R changes.  It should comfortably hit 20MB once
good chunks of 4.4Lite2 goes in..

(in case anybody is wondering how to strip $Id$ changes with CVS, use the -kk
flag, eg: "cvs -q diff -kk -rRELENG_2_1_0")

>					Terry Lambert
>					terry@lambert.org

Cheers,
-Peter