Comment 8 for bug 231972

the ubuntu team uses launchpad as a bug tracker but the team is small and doesn't write all the softwares distributed in ubuntu nor has the ressources to fix all the bugs in those software. the upstream bugs are sent to the upstream bug trackers by the bug triagers but there is lot of bugs and not so many triager, in such cases it's better if somebody who has access to the hardware to trigger the bug and cares about the issue could send it upstream directly, if you don't want to do it that's fine too the bug will wait there until somebody else does that though