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Jerry McAllister writes:

>  > I'd much rather that a RELEASE version is as stable as it 
>  > can reasonably be made than that it arrives "on time".
>
>  Yup.  I think that is the way all of us feel.

	I don't think many will argue, at least not loudly.
	However ... many also have bad memories of 5.0, and the
grim\\\\ firm desire to never let that happen again.  The Release
Engineering squad (et al.) has made changes that seem to be working;
let's keep an eye on things, but not cry "Wolf!" until we start
losing sheep.


					Robert Huff