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On 1/3/2012 7:48 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote:
> One reason to announce my intent was to basically "encourage"
> people to try HEAD and see how it works for them. If we lack
> sufficient people with access and/or knowledge about Windows,
> or if they don't bother to try things out until they get a
> tagged and rolled tarball (or whatever), then that is the
> issue that needs to be discussed and resolved.

+1 (or branches/2.4.x/ rather ;-)

> Another reason was to also encourage people to practice some
> restraint against willy-nilly changes, so that the delta
> between the last beta and what we hope to go GA with isn't
> so large as to warrant YAB (Yet Another Beta)... Of course,
> bugs should be squashed, but YAR (Yet Another Refactor) should
> be carefully considered.

+1