On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:13:09PM -0000, Glenn Diebolt Jackson wrote:
> Dear Bryce,
> I know you're busy, but I'm curious: why didn't anyone respond to the
> bug?  Was it left unassigned?

Quite simply, it's as you said - we're really busy.  We have over 1500
X.org bugs, and it's hard to get to every single one.  I typically focus
my time on bug reports that are known to affect the current development
version, and that already have all the necessary files attached.

To help people get bugs up to a reviewable state, I've created some
scripts to auto-respond and ask for files, request users test, etc.
In fact, my comment #6 was from one of these scripts.  If the request
goes unanswered, then the bug is automatically closed as expired after
30 days.

> I'll be happy to file it again.  I do update Ubuntu every day and have
> noticed no improvement.  I'll try the latest full release as soon as
> it changes.  Thank you for your help and for your note.

Many bugs, especially keyboard and mouse bugs, got fixed automatically
when we pulled new code from upstream for Jaunty.  The path a bug takes
is different if it is still in the development version, vs. if it's
fixed there, so we wait on putting time into a bug until we know what
path it needs to go.

Unfortunately, given that Jaunty is nearly released, if you find it is
solved there, we probably wouldn't bother to backport the fix to
Intrepid at this point, we'd just suggest people upgrade.  Backporting
fixes is pretty time intensive.

If by chance you find the issue still exists in Jaunty, the next step
for us would be to forward the bug upstream.  You are welcome to bypass
us entirely, and file it upstream at http://bugs.freedesktop.org.  If
you then give us the bug id#, we can track it and pull in the fix to
Karmic (and *maybe* Jaunty if the fix looks safe enough) when it becomes
available.

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