BIG FAT WARNING: Breaking X in rawhide

[Matthias Clasen]

On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 15:42 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> Hopefully I have your attention.
> 
> We're working on a lot of stuff that's going into upstream X really
> soon.  It's going to be quite disruptive, many drivers will fail to
> launch, etc.  Good stuff, but disruptive.
> 
> I want to rebase rawhide to git xserver really soon, before November if
> possible but definitely before December.  I'll work to make sure most
> people can get _some_ X when that happens, but it's definitely going to
> hurt for about a month.
> 
> I want to make sure everyone knows this is coming, and if anyone has
> suggestions for how to time this best and communicate all the caveats
> and workarounds, please, speak up now.

I'd say it would be best to break X right at the beginning of the cycle.
People who are not ready for it can just stay with stable F8 for a while
then, while we have the maximal time to fix it up.