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["Eric Sandall" <sandalle AT hellhound.homeip.net>]

Andrew Stitt said:
> On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 07:40:59AM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
>> Andrew Stitt said:
>> > well the updated field says july 26 and if im understanding things
>> right, it takes about a week for things to trickle down to the next
>> grimoire, however the entered field is for september 22, 2001! im
>> not really sure thats correct considering how long sorcery/source
>> mage has been around, and if it has been in the grimoire that long
>> why the heck isnt it in the stable and test grimoires?
>> >
>> > maybe i should go point and click a bug into bugzilla (is there some
>> way of doing stuff via cli on bugzilla?)
>> >
>> > On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 12:48:56PM +0200, Piero Ottuzzi wrote:
>>
>> I believe the ENTERED field is when the spell was first entered into
>> the grimoire, not when it was updated.
>>
> im aware that the entered field pertains to when the spell was first put
> into the grimoire, what i found odd was the fact that this spell 1) was
> made before I thought source mage was around, the only iso's i found
> dated back into early 2002, i suppose kyle's sorcery was around before
> then, and i guess much much longer then i had thought since there are
> dates for 20010510 in the grimoire and 2) has been in the grimoire for
> 11 months, and this person claims that it is still only in the devel
> grimoire, not the stable or testing. i dont know about you but i find
> that strange when you consider that spells arent supposed to be sitting
> in devel for 11 months without getting into the test grimoire unless
> theres something really unstable about them.

Ahh, now I see what you mean.  I thought you were just talking about a
specific version of the spell and not the spell itself.  And yes, SM (or
Sorcerer in the early days) has been around since mid-2001, IIRC, I join
in late 2001.  :)

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