While skimming through the ideas listed on Ubuntu brainstorm site, I stumbled upon this idea today. A user, nandersson, thinks that a packager shouldn’t be the only one giving attention towards bugs and they shouldn’t be the only one to consider the ideas that the Ubuntu community suggests for a software. He suggests that the main developer of the software should draw their attention too and should try to consider the ideas. In response to this idea an anonymous developer writes:

Developer comments
Whoever said that packagers were not real developers? Packaging takes a lot longer than 5 minutes. Packages that are done in 5 minutes certainly don’t get approved, as they’re usually buggy and wrong.

Most of the time, reporting a bug / feature request in the upstream bug tracker will get it to be fixed more quickly. Of course, you’re free to use the brainstorm for this if you like – it just may not be as effective.

Also, it’s not a requirement that Core Devs have commit access upstream. And if you don’t want to use whatever a developer has worked on, then you’d better stop using Ubuntu. Please remember to follow the code of conduct, at http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct/

Well, I personally believe that this is what happens when you give so much priority to one thing, become a brand loyal, and go crazy after it. It doesn’t make sense for a developer to suggest (or threaten or whatever) a loyal user to dump Ubuntu. He’d better said “In Open Source world there are always alternative software which you can use instead of the one which you think the developers don’t pay much attention to.”

From: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/14123/

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