Comment 50 for bug 812394

"One reason why the bug is unlikely to be fixed is that it would require a User Interface Freeze Exception, which would require a Docs Freeze Exception and the translators are nearly out of time to translate Ubuntu 12.04 before release as it is."

Bureaucracy does not behoove Ubuntu. If paperwork and red tape and silly excuses are the direction Ubuntu is going, other distros will be the direction users are going.

Here's a new motto for Ubuntu to follow: "Just fix it."

These poor decisions are going to drive me back to Debian one of these days, I just know it. So many problems, so many bugs, so many regressions--caused not by technical issues but by unwise decision-making. It's such a shame, because they could have been avoided.

There's a bug #1--how about a rule #1: Keep moving forward. Keep making progress. Keep getting better. Stand on the shoulders of the giants--including the previous release. Don't regress.

Bug #1 will never be resolved as long as Ubuntu keeps going back and forth between progress and regress.