Comment 44 for bug 1042211

So what's the plan here? It seems that this is serious enough to do something about it before the release of 12.10.

I'm mostly curious but of course I'd also like to see a fix for this sooner than later but what are the options? I imagine that waiting for an upstream fix is out of the question (if mesa bug 49442 is the culprit it's marked as "medium normal" importance and besides I'm not sure if 12.10 is open for such patches this late?). The other option is to downgrade mesa in the repository but if that is done I'd imagine it would be best to do that sooner than later to get some testing done on it in the beta phase?

Can anybody quench my curiosity and tell me who makes these decisions and what the process is then?