[1] The developers of the Ubuntu Linux-based operating system describe it as a bug that average users would encounter on their first day of using a brand-new installation of the latest version of Ubuntu Desktop Edition.
The intention was that each of these bugs would require no more than a day's work for a competent programmer.
They also categorise small missing features that are hard to make part of the regular processes as paper cuts.
Combining this with amplifying each of the solved problems social media presence also helped seeing the value of each of the fixes.
[18] In GitHub's case the project was started when other community efforts like the browser extension Refined GitHub[19] were started for solving similar projects.