Comment 23 for bug 1652270

I understand your point and I generally agree. On the other hand, such an effort can be counterproductive and easily can cause more problems than benefits.

People install a distro in a good faith that it will work and that the maintainer will maintain it. At least, keep it in a working not bricked state. A developer of a distribution is not the only one who invests time in the project. The users do as well. And if you let a wide userbase install your distribution you are taking a bit of responsibility of the people. Giving out even a community built distro under a well recognized brand name makes people think they can trust it. It makes them think they can invest their time to installing and setting up their systems. It makes them think they will not end up with auto-bricked devices without any help or even reply after all the effort on their side.

I think that letting people know that the problem will be fixed tomorrow / by next month / never does take that much time. So, can someone inform users at least?