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SubjectRe: starting with 2.7
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:

> Stabilizing, for me at least, means fixing bugs, not adding new features
> (unless those new features are totally necessary).

The definition of "totally necessary" is going to vary
from user to user. For some people, the ability to
use AGP on a system with more than 4GB RAM is necessary,
leading to the recent API change.

> Thus, I don't see how freezing the 2.6 codebase, waiting some time for
> bugs to get fixed and things to settle down, then forking off 2.7 could
> be a non-sense.

Hey, that's what we do between 2.6.N and 2.6.(N+1) ;)

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Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
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