Re: Error on the development plan web page?

[Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 08:59:43AM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> >> Perhaps we should differentiate between "development branches" and
> >> "release branches"?  Opinions?
> > That sounds useful.  How about this?
> 
> Yes, this looks fine. Thanks!

Committed.

> > +<p>Although maintaining a development branch, including merging new
> > +changes from the mainline, is somewhat burdensome, the absolute worst
> > +case is that such a branch will have to be maintained for four months.
> 
> BTW, should it read "absolutely" in the sentence above? (This was not
> touched by your patch, but I just noticed it as part of the diff.)

I don't think so.  It's modifying "case" which is a noun, so we need the
adjective form, not the adverb form.


I forgot to update the ASCII art schedule at the bottom, but now that I
think of it, I don't know that we have any new information as to dates...?

Phil

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