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Re:Ubuntu 16.04: “Out of memory” errors after upgrade to 4.4... by dotancohen on Sunday January 29, 2017 @02:01AM (#13512723)
> they wanted to standardize and fix any deficits, rather than working around them.

That would work great if would they would take bugs reports seriously. In practice, with Canonical I file a bug and ninety days later get an automated message that the bug was closed due to inactivity.

Re:Ubuntu 16.04: “Out of memory” errors after upgrade to 4.4... by rincebrain on Sunday January 29, 2017 @11:35PM (#13518707)
That's an unfortunate pendulum swing cleaning up from their problem of yester-year - namely, bugs sitting around _forever_ without any comment.

I noticed they changed that policy when I started getting comments on years-old bugs of closed-obsolete. If they're now 90d expiring bugs, I'd _guess_ there's a bit that can be set for your account of whether you're a customer paying for support, and that their support staff have a queue filter that prioritizes those, and the rest get expired if nobody comments.