Canonical/Ubuntu question

[Bart Silverstrim]

I don't know if anyone can or will answer this...sometimes this list is 
quite hit or miss...but are there people from Canonical or developers 
for apps in the repos monitoring the list(s)?

I was curious since I went from 8.04 to 8.10 and had 3 issues so far on 
2 machines, and it seems that the issues were known problems from beta 
testing and I think they're in the bug tracker, but I don't know if 
there's ever any feedback on what the status of the bug is. The webcam 
driver issue seemed to have been reported other places, but am I holding 
my breath that it's being worked on or is it one of those things that 
will be ignored or left as obsolete? So I wondered if there was a site 
or method of finding out before deciding if I need to downgrade or get 
rid of the hardware in question, or what the best practices was in that 
situation.

Not trying to start a flamewar or fit. I'm asking how as an end user to 
get feedback on issues rather than just shouting to the mountains, or if 
the bug tracker is the last word...in which case it seems kind of open 
ended.