Regressions

It's either an Ubuntu problem or a GNOME problem, I guess. Occasionally I wonder whether the corporate backing of these projects couldn't be brought to bear in actually testing some of these things - that is, paying for a bunch of equipment to be sitting around configured in different ways.

Although users can in theory be asked to exercise various configurations, one has the impression that some of the testing could have been performed by the developers in order to avoid, well, regressions. And to follow on from my remarks on the demands placed on the end-user, noted somewhere else in this discussion, if us end-users were to give our utmost to each and every project whose software broke in some way, we'd be spread very thin indeed.

If one's free time quickly becomes swamped managing a bunch of tracker items, at what point did one become an unpaid member of staff in some distribution vendor? Because that's what it probably feels like after a while.