To be clear, I have 3 machines and all of them are running Ubuntu Karmic, but I am being a little annoyed about how are bug reports treated at Launchpad, while it has some really neat features it’s very overcomplicated in some places, I still have trouble marking affected packages, but that aside the biggest problem is that some bugs simply don’t get attention, I don’t mean getting fixed, I mean getting attention. I posted some really serious bugs a few months ago, and they still did not get addressed, it’s like the developers don’t even know about them.
There are two particular bugs that I think that should have been addressed long ago:
1) [Karmic] [i945] Screen flickers due to constantly changing brightness level
Reported on: 2009-08-14
2) [Karmic] USB hotplug system doesn’t detect anything after boot
Reported on: 2009-09-07
None of these seemed to get the deserved priority and Karmic is going to be released but it will fail on a whole product line, well at least for the general consumers, I still love and use Ubuntu, but I wish they would take a deep look into issues that matter, it’s a pity because on the UI front they really outdone themselves. Let’s hope for the best.
