As my previous comment may sound more aggressive than it is, let me
explain this a bit better. Quoting from above

"But seriously, we did not design this behavior yesterday on the back of
a napkin. We discussed it publicly at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in
December."

And quoting from the top

"Specific messages worth reading are:

  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-February/027434.html
  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-February/027451.html
  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-February/027454.html
  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-February/027437.html
  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-February/027445.html";


None of these messages contains ubuntu-devel-discuss as the target. That 
wouldn't probably suffice anyway. In my opinion, ubuntu is a successful 
distribution because of the effort of the community in publicising it. If it 
looses community consensus it may die. The effort of people is not for free: 
big changes should be discussed with the active community in my opinion, not 
just with the developers. 

That's my 2 cents, and what I would really like to see. I contributed a
lot of my free time in the past but I am really getting "pissed off" by
serious regressions not being taken care of because changes have to be
introduced, and by disruptive changes which most users won't like, that
"can not be reverted because we are too late in the development cycle,
and have already been discussed in <insert here a place which is not
commonly accessed, or accessible at all, by users>"

More public discussion, and even being keen to change "ubuntu's mind" on
some topics, would help a lot in the relationships between the community
and ubuntu itself.

No aggressive tone intended here. Ubuntu is still yours more than mine,
and if I really wanted to I could even fork it.

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