Personally I think it's madness to release something with known critical bugs that have patches.
I think proposed patches should be in CVS. That way, when you update you get the current patches & can apply the ones you want. It would encourage more testing through everyday use, while allowing bad patches to be easily discarded. Also, when I posted my patch for dynamic macros, I tested all of the open macro related bugs potentially fixed by the patch. It turned out that many of these bugs have actually been fixed already (without my patch), but have never been updated. Perhaps this is because they were fixed unintentionally. I will generate a list later tonight. Andrew
