From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2007-06-20T15:30:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about the patchlevel release cycle


On Jun 19, 2007, at 23:11 , Sylvain Joyeux wrote:

> 1.8.6 thread support was broken in bad ways. It stayed for three  
> months
>
> 1.8.6-p36 is broken w.r.t. compilation of extensions and has a  
> thread bug.
> The bug is much minor than in 1.8.6, but it is nonetheless a bug in a
> very "core" part of the standard library.
>
> Wouldn't it be possible to have "hotfixes" (i.e.: quick patchlevel
> releases) when this kind of bugs happen ?

could you refer to bug #s?