Comment How To Handle Unfixed Linux Bug (Score 1) 266
Posting a "Ask Slashdot" question may give enough publicity to this bug to have an emotional dev take care of your problem.
It seems it's the way to get things done, nowadays. There was a time where open source developers guided by passion were always keen to perform lengthy anti-regression tests and urged to fix main problems. According to the more recent versions of Gnome, Gimp, VLC, ... this time is gone [the Linux kernel being an exception].