On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 18:17 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
Small point here. X developers may run their upstream latest X, but that's because they want just the unstable X, nothing else unstable. If they were doing it on rawhide and things crashed, is it because of the new X code, or some other breakage in rawhide? What if they can't even test X bring up because glibc is busted? It's quite easy to say you're going to run the latest and greatest for your little world of influence and your package set, but to properly develop it you have to have a stable platform to start with, to know if the changes you're making and the effects you're seeing are from your software vs something else entirely.
We're developing a distribution - Fedora. Fedora is our product, like X is the X developers' product. Fedora is "our little world of influence and our package set". Yes, that's a big task, but it's what we're here for. :)
I'm getting the sense a lot of people are thinking in terms of "well, I just work on this little piece, so I want to work on this little piece and not be bothered when some other piece breaks". But we're really all working on one *big* piece, here.