LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem

Users' bugs and troubles don't generate patches: developers do. Ubuntu has millions of users, and dozens of developers (only some of whom work for Canonical). We receive several thousand bug reports per month, for the entire free software stack.

We focus primarily on fixing integration and packaging problems (which are our unique responsibility), followed by the most critical problems we inherit from upstream. This is similar to how Debian works, though the scales involved are dramatically different.