<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">It was hardly "left loveless and abandoned." I assure you that bugs were being worked on. I can also assure you that bugs, even some serious ones, remain, and are being worked on as I write.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Do you think it might be possible that the interval for the first "bug fix" release might be more because of proper pre-release testing resulting in a better code quality then the previous two?</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Oh, and how long was it before 5.2 came out? Answer: a very long time; D6 was just about ready before 5.2. Do you anticipate waiting that long for 7.3/7.4? I don't. You can thank the Security team for that.<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><FONT style="RIGHT: auto" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.</FONT></div>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; RIGHT: auto" id=yiv292712714>One thing I never understood. 7.0 was left loveless and abandoned (while the bugs piled up) for three and a half months. The first bugfix for 6 took three weeks. It was only two weeks with D5.<BR><BR>What was the thinking behind that?</DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></div></div></body></html>