Comment 16 for bug 149775

I filed a duplicate (didn't find this bug then) and here is the same comment copy-pasted

The users cannot give feedback which are the bugs most critical for them. Advocacy comments doesn't seem to do any good.

Example case 1: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695

Example case 2: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/221673

This leads to the user frustration when the developers are seen as elitistic bastards who are motivated by sole technology interest and not human concerns.

Ubuntu should follow its philosophy "Linux for human beings" and at least create an illusion that the users can express their concern and the developers and the users are part of the same community. The easiest way for this would be bug voting.

I file this as an bug since what we have here is an failure to communicate between the users and the core community. Please let's up end up like Mozilla Bugzilla which has bugs open > 5 years with hundreds of frustrated comments.

Java has done it ~10 years now:

http://bugs.sun.com/top25_bugs.do

See brainstorm idea:

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/8338/