The Xorg 7.4 release plan

I'll take a release synchronized with a major distro over a free-for-all one every day.
Synchronizing with a major distro schedule means your new code is actually tested by a large
pool of users (distro testers) and bugs are actually reported and tracked (by the distro
maintainers that want to ship a solid release). There is no possible comparison with a release
that has only been tested by people who can and bother building vcs snapshots.

For example hal auto input code landed in Fedora devel last week (among much grief) but that
also means this code is going to be beaten into shape now instead of festering in an
almost-working state as it has for the last months.

(Fedora is good that ways, it enables the features everyone is afraid of and gets their
upstream to stabilize them instead of waiting for others to take the first step).

IIRC Linus publicly singled out the kernel versions that were released in sync with a Fedora
version as being more stable than the average ones, thanks in no little part to the Fedora
stabilization drive.