Comment 28 for bug 346513

So what exactly does it take to get something that the users want backported to be backported? Do we need a petition, and if so, how many people? There are over 100 names listed at the right of this page already. And I'm sure everyone knows that there are many who merely bookmark the page and don't subscribe to the bug. If it's not so hard to backport it, and you have the time to answer questions for someone else wants to backport it....then why on Earth don't you just do it yourself and be finished with it? Is it bureaucracy, politics within Ubuntu, blame game being played between developers? It's simple things like this bug that multiply and get swept under the rug that probably hurts Ubuntu the most. You get 15 or 20 small, nagging bugs on your system and you begin to wonder if you shouldn't just switch to a better version of linux that "just works". I'm not singling any one person out...just making a general observation of what I see going on with Ubuntu concerning bugs that are not deemed "critical", etc.

Thank you for your time and for doing what you do Ted.