A tale of fixed release schedules

[Michael Shigorin]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 08:22:18AM +0800, John wrote:
> Dapper Long Life is supposed to be around for some years;
> likely in that time OOo will release a significant new version

Maybe 2.1.  3.0 Somewhere Ahead.

> and folk will want it for Dapper Long Life.  Ditto for Mozilla

So that's what backports are for.  These aren't always an easy
game though: building Seamonkey 1.0 (not alpha but release) on 
distro with a bit older pango(?) stuff and the rest of rendering
libbells and libwhistles wasn't practical.

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