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On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Jon Cast wrote:

> > This might be a good idea.  (I would probably start at -10 rather
> > than -99.)
> 
> I agree.  However, IMO the first pretest should be -20 or -30 rather
> than -10 --- from what I understand, Emacs 21 went up to pretest 106
> from 90, which makes 17 pretests.

I'd suggest -30 or even -40 for major releases.  Then you have the 
flexibility to bump from -30 to -20 if the number of problems in -30 is 
not large.

This corresponds to what was used in the past: major releases started 
with a .70 or even .65 minor-minor version.