Comment 54 for bug 27520

Am 28.02.2012 20:55, schrieb Clint Byrum:
> Matthias, to Martin's point, the level of testing we see in each release
> goes down significantly as new stable releases are available. This is
> evident in the number of untested SRU's that have been pushed into
> natty-proposed and stayed there because not even the original reporters
> return to verify the fix.

The key point is "reasonably quick turnaround". Bugs take ages to even
be triaged (and those be forwarded upstream that are clearly upstream
bugs), let alone be fixed -- I've more than once been unable to verify
fixes because the hardware I reported bugs against was no longer
available, or because the systems had been upgraded, or moved to
different distributions that do fix bugs on a quicker schedule.

This bug has lived for nearly six years!

> So while I understand the frustration, please understand that we have to
> prioritize the testing resources and development resources we have.
> Since natty users can upgrade directly to oneiric and have this solved,
> and the subset of users affected is limited, its in the greater interest
> of Ubuntu users to pass on backporting the fix to natty.

I do understand the resource constraints, but please understand that the
massive deliberate desktop disruption with the GNOME->Unity move and the
still feature-limited KDE 4 makes the upgrade much more difficult than
the upgrades of the pre-Unity era used to be.

There's a reason why I still have maverick and natty systems around...
and given responses like this it's unlikely those will upgrade. Much
more likely they'll move on to Mint, Fedora, or possibly even FreeBSD.