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[Anthony Harrington <untaintableangel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I hope you don't mind my tweaking the name of this bug slightly so that
it makes sense and reflects your intention ;)

I have a few thoughts people might agree with.

It seems to me that the issue over the years has become something like
this: Those who created a program in question themselves or actively
code for the programs that make up the infrastructure of ubuntu have got
their hands full adding features and fixing major bugs etc

Comparatively smaller bugs and smaller changes which the general
userbase point out should be changed tend to slip through the cracks a
bit and become the focus of groups like the 100 papercuts. However
overall, i think it's accurate to say that there is perhaps a difference
in programming expertise between the creators and those hoping to fix a
small bug here and there, and certainly a difference in familiarity of
the procedures for helping out as well.

It seems to result in a situation where major release versions of
programs are churned out, complete with new features and no/almost no
show-stopping bugs, but so many possible userbase-inspired additions
have missed their chance because noone knew how to contribute or it was
too complicated to do so. Then there are users who will report a bug but
have no clue how to gather useful data about it - and can suddenly be
met with comments as short as "can you bisect it?" referring to 'git
bisect' to see which commit caused the problem. Let's assume the average
user is not going to want to build the program from source to see what
the problem is exactly; they want to be helpful and report something
that's not so good but rarely want to/are able to go through the hassle
of making the change themself, so they must wait until someone is free
to look at it. (This step is understandably slow and for good reason -
there are other things to be done first!)

Ubuntu brainstorming was popular a while back and served a purpose
because a lot of cool new USERBASE DESIRED features and changes were
thought up, but as many said later, the ideas were generally ignored and
left just as ideas. (Perhaps people didn't know how they would go about
implementing one of these ideas?)

Generally, there are a few really talented programmers in the linux
world but they've really got their hands full focusing on what they
enjoy most/what they feel is most important and it's slow going for a
beginner to reach their level of expertise.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1049082

Title:
  The "hundredpapercuts" project will make the Ubuntu experience blaze
  gloriously like the sun!

Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  The Ubuntu experience is limited by plenty of small bugs. We are
  redesigning the "hundredpapercuts" project to make Ubuntu delightful
  by reducing them.

  This time we're trying the other way:
  - Instead of planning so hardly, working.
  - Instead of creating an impressive infrastructure, to create an agile one.
  - Instead of working in many aspect, to polish the very important things.
  - Instead of marketing the project; to make it recognizable, and to properly tie it.
  - Instead of setting great goals; to set a great mission, and to define goals for sure we will get.

  If you want this kind of bugs, as us, to be fixed; you may want to
  subscribe to this report and give your points of view in it. Although
  we will rather be working than commenting, we will carefully look at
  them.

  Thank you ♡

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