As I say; everyone else manages this OK, including the 'enterprise' distributions for whom released bugs cost real money in lost confidence and effort to clear up. Maemo is not special. Besides which, it's not like we don't have a process for this already - simply use the same approach as maemo.org does; testing versions go into the testing repo, get tested, get pushed to release when they're done. Just like (almost) everyone else does. In any case; there are bugs in the release firmware; if the media were going to rip anyone to shreds surely they'd be as likely to do it over a stubborn refusal to allow people access to known, done, finished and working fixes for those?