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> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:43:24 +0000
> From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
> >
> >I agree.  IIRC, 21.3 had a couple of annoying last-minute bugs.
> >
> Its a good idea if we can stick to a quick pretest cycle (a couple of
> weeks at the most).

Agreed.

I think this should be possible because, as you said, the release
branch didn't see commits for a long time.

The hardest thing would be to find a victim^H^H^H^H^H^Hvolunteer to
do package the tarballs and deltas and generally supervise the
release process.