I know that the PR1.2 "Ctrl-Shift-R" rotation method is less buggy then the rotate.py script method, but rotatte.py is persistent (you don't have to keep invoking it, just let the script run in the background to affect all apps) and rotate.py allows portrait use of the keyboard.

Therefore I'm guessing some folks will opt for rotate.py to get their portrait on instead of using the PR1.2 default portrait method. In that case, it might be helpful to try this:

To make rotate.py activate automatically upon device startup and to let it run without having to keep an x-terminal window open, why not just write up an upstart script to execute "python rotate.py" upon start on started xsession?