Don't want to say anything unhelpful but I'm a long time user of kde and the quality of it really matters to me.

It seems to me that maybe users could be the solution to this problem? Perhaps we could have a group of users who spend time processing the bug reports and only passing them to developers when the information has reached a useful point?

I would be happy to do some of this...having looked at the numbers in question it probablydefinitly needs a whole team of which I could be a part.

interestedindividual wrote:I would be happy to do some of this...having looked at the numbers in question it probablydefinitly needs a whole team of which I could be a part.

Thank you, this is very welcome.

There is already the bugsquad which is trying to do what you describe, but in fact they can always use a helping hand.

http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Bugsquad