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Date:      Fri, 26 Nov 1999 15:08:49 +1000 (EST)
From:      Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@mail.theinternet.com.au>
To:        billf@chc-chimes.com (Bill Fumerola)
Cc:        forrestc@iMach.com, saper@system.pl, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: speaking of 3.4...
Message-ID:  <199911260508.PAA50219@mail.theinternet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911252207540.22937-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com> from Bill Fumerola at "Nov 25, 1999 10: 9: 7 pm"

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+----[ Bill Fumerola ]---------------------------------------------
| On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Forrest W. Christian wrote:
| 
| > What I'd propose is one additional "track".
| 
| "Branch" is the typical name for these things.
| 
| I'll just offer that bitrot is a serious reason why we don't need
| another branch.
| 
| As for 'missioncritical', we simply call it 'errata'.

Once a year we can just do a diff between the current version and the
one from a year previous and issue a Jumbo Patch :-) 

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