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From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 10:03:43AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

> Can you clarify, what will be the policy of the RELENG_4 after it
> "becomes an Errata Branch"?  Will it be passed to Security Officer,
> and no new featuress could be committed to this branch?

That is the current plan but it will depend on the relative success
of 5.3 and 4.11.  The RE team and the project in general will know
more about how strongly we feel this is the way it should be a couple
months after 5.3 is out.

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