Comment 7 for bug 192451

@ Simon

First, your comment is not really helpful, and if anything is more likely to get people offside rather than promote its resolution. The short answer is because people are busy with lots of things, including life, and this is a volunteer effort.

Second, you would have noticed, like I did when I went to comment on this bug, that the launchpad site clearly displays a message indicating that this is a duplicate of another bug. It says "Remember, this bug report is a duplicate. Comment here only if you think the duplicate status is wrong." If you look up at the top you'll see that's https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/168161 - and that one has received lots of attention over the last few days.