Canonical/Ubuntu question

[scott]

Thomas Kaiser wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
I was just wondering. Programming experience? By the way you posted, my
guess would be probably.

If you have the skills , you can always jump in and help the developers.

After all, isn't that what open software is all about?

And, yes, I help as much as I can. Not trying to be coy. Just saying
that free software still requires a lot of time and effort.

If I'm wrong, sorry. You can still help by adding your two-cents worth,
as a user, to any developer of your choice.