RE: Making 23.2 release soon

[Drew Adams]

> > An Emacs binary was made available only two days ago (5/5). 
> > The source code for rolling your own pretest was made
> > available only four days ago (5/3).
> >
> > Some potential pretesters have likely not even seen the announcement
> > of that pretest yet, let alone had a chance to download it and start
> > using it to see whether in fact "no additional regressions with
> > respect to 23.1 have turned up since the last pretest".
> 
> The changes since 23.1.96 are very straightforward; 23.1.97 
> is intended to catch only serious last-minute bugs.

So did you make the 97 pretest to catch those serious last-minute bugs? Or not?
What is the purpose of the 97 pretest?