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From: mike@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Mike McNelly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: APRs (FLAME ON)
Message-ID: <9330013@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 91 16:34:20 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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> My favorite APR response was always "fixed in a future release."  We never
> said which future release, and no one could claim we lied, unless they
> waited forever.

"Fixed in a future release" may seem like weasel-words but it's
necessary if the name of a future release is not entirely stable.  For
example, consider the possible confusion to customers if the engineer
had responded "fixed in release 11.xx" and that release was subsequently
renumbered to 10.yy.

Also, in the mad world of releases, sometimes unrelated releases
unexpectedly leapfrog each other due to slips of one part or another.
This accounts for some creative release renumbering and further
confusion for everyone, the engineers included.


Mike McNelly
mike@fc.hp.com
(I have nothing to do with Apollo APR's, by the way)