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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
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Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>:
> Ohhh, that sounds a lot like "I'm not the maintainer, I'm
> not responsible for the code I submit"  ;)))

I will provide stable code and be responsible for its stability.  It will be
Marcelo's call, not mine, on whether the strategic tradeoffs come out
in favor of the back-port.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

Everything you know is wrong.  But some of it is a useful first approximation.
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