wine users - Nov 2009 - Why the bug-list for 1.2?

I have been using WINE since ever, and it's a realy must-have app.
However, I have some questions about WINE, and this is one of them:

Who do you guys (devs) have a bug list for 1.2 (or 1.3, 1.4, or whatever) if you
just "remove" bugs from that list before releasing.
I mean, bug 421 for example, you set it for 1.2, but now you just removed it
from that list. Why's that?
Should you release WINE versions according to the bug-list "to go for X
version" instead of removing bugs from that list before releasing?

Anyways, you're really the best. Keep doing that great job!

At WineConf we set the goals for Wine 1.2 and we plan to release it in the not
too distant future. I have no idea when that will be but I guess it will take 6
months or so. The main new feature for 1.2 will be 64-bit support and that
requires a lot of big changes.

Next to 64-bit support we want to fix other outstanding issues. We went to the
current list of bugs for 1.2 and removed bugs of it which are not feasible to
fix in this time frame or bugs which are not important enough. The list is not
complete and we might even decide to add a few more bugs to it.