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Re: (ASCEND) Analog Multilink PPP and RAS
At 01:15 PM 5/23/97 -0500, William C Bonner wrote:
>On Thu, 22 May 1997, Kevin Smith wrote:
>> Please bear in mind that the features of the 5.0A release and all of the
>> subsequent patches are the same set. Only in the "i" releases do the
>> supported features change.
>>
>> Since this was not supported in the 5.0A release, it will not be in *any*
>> of the 5.0ApXX versions either.
>>
>> It will be in the *next* main release, and is currently in the "i" loads
>> (since i4 I believe) as a customer BETA of the feature.
>
>How does this work? If a big customer says they want it, a feature change
>can go into a patch release? How big is big?
Bigger than us :)
>I only ask because twice in the 50a patch tree so far, features have been
>added. The most recent, up and down metrics, didn't even make the release
>notes as far as I could see.
We will *only* allow new features when we are extremely confident that they
will have no negative impact on the release. Hence they are typically small
changes like the ones you mentioned, or cosmetic changes...
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