Canonical/Ubuntu question

[Thomas Kaiser]

Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> 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.
> 

Which Webcam and which version of Ubuntu?

Thomas

PS: I am not a Ubuntu developer, but you should have more details in 
your question.