From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 14 21:42: 3 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F1CF37B401 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 21:42:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from out004.verizon.net (out004pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 681A343EB2 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 21:41:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dacut@kanga.org) Received: from kanga.org ([151.201.19.185]) by out004.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.20 201-253-122-126-120-20021101) with ESMTP id <20030115054155.UIBP2505.out004.verizon.net@kanga.org> for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 23:41:55 -0600 Message-ID: <3E24F4BA.3090508@kanga.org> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 00:42:18 -0500 From: David Cuthbert Organization: Kanga International User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en-au, en-nz, en-us, en- MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 RC3 now available References: <2F03DF3DDE57D411AFF4009027B8C3670289D6B2@exchange-uk.isltd.insignia.com> <20030114103822.GG61405@starjuice.net> <20030114143017K.hanche@math.ntnu.no> In-Reply-To: <20030114143017K.hanche@math.ntnu.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at out004.verizon.net from [151.201.19.185] at Tue, 14 Jan 2003 23:41:54 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: > 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. You make it sound like that doesn't happen anymore. Ah, sadly, it does, and I've been known to be an unwilling participant... :-\ Though we actually go as far as to reclassify bugs as enhancement requests. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message