In case anyone missed it, the lesson was: publicise problems. The corrections happened after it was posted to many lists.
No, they didn't. The savannah hackers knew about this before it happened, and where working on a fix before it. Publicising something of this sort without a firm ground work is wrong.
Also, it's only a postponement, not a long-term fix. Please help explain to savannah-hackers-public@gnu why requiring a known-buggy GPL-incompatible licence is a bad idea.
Please spreading these untruths. Nobody is requiring you to license material under the GFDL, you can license it under the BSD and the GFDL if you so wish. Nor is the GFDL buggy in any sense that you claim that it is. That you dislike invariant sections is one thing, it doesn't make it a bug (specially since invariant sections where specially made for the GFDL).