ubuntu needs better QA since major components have big number of serious bugs

[LimCore]

All most used applications and systems seem to have big number of bugs.
Every day I bump into important bugs in common applications, and after checking here I notice that I am not the only one, bugs are known and confirmed, for long time often,
and yet they still exist.

If this continue, many new users will be not happy with Ubuntu, and therefore https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1 will get even worse.

(Still Ubuntu is nice and thanks for all the good work)

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Some of bugs are not fixed for long time.
Others should had never happen in the first place.

GUI: constant nvidia problems, especially in compiz - compiz is almost not usable (crashes all the time) so why it is in main repositories
GUI: nvidia have lots of problems even without compiz nor Xgl. Work arounds should exist, or other version of nvidia drivers
Desktop: firefox3 often renders pages incorrectly
Security: SSH/DSA key generated on ubutnu are often invalid (guessable). Hard to imagine worst bug.

This are usually someone's else "fault" (i.e. Debian introduced ssh problem), but still, end users do not care.

Perhaps it would be nice to create teams dedicated solely to
1. fixing in any way bugs in critical components. Workaround, older version, patch - no matter what but it really should Just Work
2. and a team reviewing security related code, especially in main systems like openssh

I guess such teams exist, but apparently the end result is not as good as one would hope.

Since Ubuntu is backed up by real company, perhaps it would be possible to invest more into increasing such teams.

Ubuntu can be really awesome, but things like this need to go away...

[LimCore (limcore)]

p.s. despite of that, thanks to all developers and bug reporters for a really nice and close to ideal desktop

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

This is not a bug, in that it's not something fixable. Launchpad is a bugtracker, not a political tool, and this is a political problem.