I think for such projects it would make sense to seek help from volunteers. People who don't necessarily contribute to the code base, but who could help organi

I think for such projects it would make sense to seek help from volunteers. People who don't necessarily contribute to the code base, but who could help organize the many bugs. After all it's just a question of man power to remove duplicates, prioritize by commonness and make sure long-term bugs really get fixed. That latter has the advantage that the code base really gets improved. In fact the Ubuntu project seems to do something similar eventhough it is IMHO not well enough organized: there is ubuntuforums.org, when I recently asked a question there, within minutes I got a response. The response was not helpful at all but still. The moderators were really doing a lot to keep the forum organized, and for instanced pulled me into a separate thread to not spam another bug. (Which was in their opinion a different issue.) Taking this a step further and bridging it with the actual Ubuntu bug tracker on launchpad would be awesome. Maybe with launchpad having only limited write permissions for the public.