A couple of rants about Launchpad

[Christopher Chan]

David Gerard wrote:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/321473/
>
> "So far as I'm aware the purpose of Launchpad is indeed to generate
> buzz. Certainly if it's intended to be used to fix bugs then it's a
> total failure."
>
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~cjwatson/blosxom/2009/03/02
>
> "My biggest single annoyance with bug triage is people coming around
> and asking if bugs are still valid when they haven't put any effort
> into reproducing them themselves." (This is from a package maintainer,
> not from a bug reporter.)
>
> These URLs should make their way into the press and blog coverage
> section of the weekly newsletter.
So that is the way things currently work in Ubuntu. I was wondering 
about the cause for full fledged releases still loaded with rather 
obvious bugs.