On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 00:05 -0500, Jerry Amundson wrote:
Au contraire, mon ami. [On the contrary, my friend.] "Beta and pre-releases in general" (rawhide as we know it) is no more than a "Add/Remove Software" (Package Manager) Edit->Repositories, checkbox "development" away from my 93-year old, computer illiterate, cannot setup-his-way-out-of-a-vcr-remote grandfather adding complete crap packages on his desktop, you might reconsider that statement.
And you would grant that level of root-password-required access to such a person...why, exactly? :)
In general, code quality in open source software currently SUCKS.
We are all human. From that, errors are inherent to and unavoidable in anything we - as a society or as individuals - produce: including code. However, one of F/OSS's many benefits is the great number of people perusing and (hopefully) quickly improving upon that as time passes.