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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: More BETA evilness Re: BETA induced nervousness
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On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 11:00:56PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote:

> 	-METASTABLE

I actually like this one: metastable means "stable, but may
spontaneously transition to something else at any point without
warning" which is a pretty good description of what happens during the
early phases of code freeze :-)

Probably a bit too technical for most users, though :-)

Kris

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