Why people don't test development distributions

Posted Jul 7, 2009 9:38 UTC (Tue) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
Parent article: Why people don't test development distributions

> Rawhide just got back to usable state where I can begin reporting bugs again. Firefox has been completely weird, Evolution won't even start here, the kernel has done a good job of cooking my system drawing about twice the normal amount of power... [...] Sound stopped working. The screen saver started leaving the display in a weird, low-color-resolution state. And, most annoyingly, the keyboard layout went fully into psychedelic country. [...] somebody uploaded a broken prelink which hosed most important executables on the system.

Seriously, what is the point of making such software available? I mean, to anyone? What is a development distribution supposed to be exactly, just a mere and blind aggregation of random git snapshots?!

I am ready to test software tagged as a beta _release_ by developers, but random source code no thanks. Who would be?

See lmb's post above for more.