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developers@FreeBSD.org with a rough schedule for the FreeBSD 4.6 |
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active documentation committers are exempt from this rule for |
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<tt>ports@FreeBSD.org</tt>, and <tt>stable@FreeBSD.org</tt>.</td> |
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