A piece of this issue is distributions, and it somewhat might be better for rolling release distros.
Also, at least for his examples, these are fairly low popularity products, as much as I like Gnome[0] and its ecosystem, it's the truth. Shotwell? He said it himself, no one develops it anymore. Epiphany (vs. Firefox vs. Chrome) Gnome Music, Weather? It doesn't help that the userbase is small and thus, the developer base is even smaller.
Would we see the same apathy with Firefox, VLC, mplayer, not to mention bash or openssl? Probably not (as we have seen especially with the last two).
[0] Not being sarcastic, imao, Gnome 3 blows Unity,Gnome 2,KDE, and even OS X out of the water in my book, which makes me sad it isn't as popular as Unity.
Most of the bugs he refers to aren't even fixed in git, so yeah, no. The one that is fixed didn't get a CVE so it isn't surprising none of the distro security teams heard about it.
I agree, the fact that the devs aren't even fixing it in the first place is a problem, although as I said, these are unpopular apps with few devs in the first place.
Also, at least for his examples, these are fairly low popularity products, as much as I like Gnome[0] and its ecosystem, it's the truth. Shotwell? He said it himself, no one develops it anymore. Epiphany (vs. Firefox vs. Chrome) Gnome Music, Weather? It doesn't help that the userbase is small and thus, the developer base is even smaller.
Would we see the same apathy with Firefox, VLC, mplayer, not to mention bash or openssl? Probably not (as we have seen especially with the last two).
[0] Not being sarcastic, imao, Gnome 3 blows Unity,Gnome 2,KDE, and even OS X out of the water in my book, which makes me sad it isn't as popular as Unity.