On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 15:52 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
It's just risk management. I think we'd be better off
acknowledging there
are unknown unknowns and try to mitigate them. One way we could have done
that this time around was making it an optional feature (as Matt was
mentioning in a previous email) for F14 and then decide in F15 if it was
ready. Unfortunately that's not the path we seem to be on. We unwisely
seemed to declare it ready before anyone even saw it then we ignored what
we didn't know as if we knew there were going to be no problems. The sad
thing is that's such an easy fix by making brand new features for core
components like this opt in, even if it's just for a single release.
Well, ironically enough, Lennart's last big revolution illustrates the
problem with that. PulseAudio - previously PolypAudio, remember - was
'opt-in' for several releases; it was packaged in Fedora and many other
major distributions, you could enable it just by installing it. It was
used by approximately no-one. People just don't opt in to big bits of
infrastructural change unless they have some very specific reason to do
so; booting the system more or less works for most people, so why would
they 'opt in' to a new init daemon?
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