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Mike Smith wrote:

> > Isn't this a bit late in the Beta to start changing kernel formats?
> 
> There's mixed opinion on this; at the moment we just want to get the
> tech out there for people to play with it.  The big kicker is that if
> we *don't* change now, we'll have yet another big-gulp change point in
> front of the 3.0.x stability release, which will also be Bad.

	I agree, get it all out there now. There have been so many changes
during the beta period already that you might as well get all the pain
over with before the release. For my money, I won't even consider "beta"
testing 3.0 until after the -Release, AND the tree is branched. You
can't seriously call the last two weeks a beta test of anything, there
were many days when you couldn't even build a release. 

Doug

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