> Remember, even if you can claim for Fedora that someone "convinced the PHB"
If you looked at the discussions that happened during that time (I was there as a Fedora contributor back then, and wow that was a long time ago!), you'll see that we mostly did the change out of weariness of trying to use Upstart features well and failing. And even with that, we delayed it by one release because it wasn't ready during the Fedora 14 development timeframe (it was supposed to be in Fedora 14, we actually launched it in Fedora 15).
If you looked at the discussions that happened during that time (I was there as a Fedora contributor back then, and wow that was a long time ago!), you'll see that we mostly did the change out of weariness of trying to use Upstart features well and failing. And even with that, we delayed it by one release because it wasn't ready during the Fedora 14 development timeframe (it was supposed to be in Fedora 14, we actually launched it in Fedora 15).