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Date:      Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:30:17 +0100
From:      Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.0 RC3 now available
Message-ID:  <20030114143017K.hanche@math.ntnu.no>
In-Reply-To: <20030114103822.GG61405@starjuice.net>
References:  <2F03DF3DDE57D411AFF4009027B8C3670289D6B2@exchange-uk.isltd.insignia.com> <20030114103822.GG61405@starjuice.net>

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+ Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>:

| On (2003/01/14 10:22), local.freebsd.current wrote:
| 
| > I'm not trying to get up anyone's nose here, but aren't there
| > objective release criteria?
| 
| Yes.  One of the release criteria is that it come into existence. :-)

Indeed.  There is an old story from the days of the big irons, when
IBM had an "objective" release criterion stating that no new release
of their OS would be shipped with more than 100 major bugs.

As a result, before each release, the engineers would have a big
meeting with the purpose of redefining major bugs as minor bugs.

I have no idea if the story is true, but there is a lesson in there
somewhere, so in a deeper sense it must be true.

- Harald

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