People often say things like that thinking it will motivate developers to
do something. In truth it's rather more likely to have the opposite effect.
Each Ubuntu release requires a balance between new features and risk. We
are currently dealing with an unfortunate volume of late toolchain and
library changes. We are already overloaded and unable to take on more.
I encourage you to take your passion to Debian and get it done there so
both distros benifit. We can facilitate that if needed.
People often say things like that thinking it will motivate developers to
do something. In truth it's rather more likely to have the opposite effect.
Each Ubuntu release requires a balance between new features and risk. We
are currently dealing with an unfortunate volume of late toolchain and
library changes. We are already overloaded and unable to take on more.
I encourage you to take your passion to Debian and get it done there so
both distros benifit. We can facilitate that if needed.