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> The commercial organizations I've dealt with (and in) must schedule
> for "minimal feature set", "expected feature set", and then "stretch
> goals" over and above that.

Then the organizations you dealt with are *very* different than the
organizations I've dealt with.  I've found that the FreeBSD 'release
engineering/software engineering' cycle is orders of magnitudes better
than REAL (tm) companies I've worked for and with.

> If they told you it was supposed to be fixed in the next product, and
> then it wasn't, you'd scream blue murder.

Happens more often than not in my experience.  The behavior of the bug
has changed, but the bug still exists.




Nate