Re: Maintainers wanted

[Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>]

On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 05:35:36PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
>> New GNU packages that should probably be there -- groff.
>
>I'd bundle this with man, since man relies heavily on it.
>
>> Yes, please. I'm tired of using beta software ;-)
>
>Picky, picky, picky.  ;-)
>
>Back when I was working on DJGPP V2.0 and it was still in *alpha*,
>ARDI was using the *alpha* djgpp to build their *beta* version of
>Executor V2.0.  That version was still more stable than the Executor
>1.0 they were shipping.
>
>I think Cygnus called it "beta" simply to remind people that it was
>unsupported.  Starting with 1.1.0, we'll just have to be more careful
>about telling people what's supported (even middle numbers, which will
>probably be our commercial offerings) and what's not supported (odd
>middle numbers, for the net releases).
>
>Assuming marketing lets us get away with it, of course.

Shhhhhh...

cgf