Thanks for digging that out.  I'll focus on Jessie for the time being.  I actually had to do a reinstallation because I had runaway backporting that took out networking and other services.   I notice the following about the defaults in Jessie:

• Thunar does not support SFTP

• Devices ttyUSB0, ttyUSB1, and friends rearrange themselves after hibernation

• NTPd is missing and must be installed manually

• The default screen saver blanks the screen but does not turn off the backlight

• sleep does not work not even when invoked via pm-sleep

• hibernate works much of the time, but not 100%, when invoked via pm-hibernate

• useragent strings for Iceweasel and others do not say Devua, this is a triviality though

• During the installation, the ctrl-alt-f4 logs show many ^M indicating bad formatting

• Bluetooth seems not to be found much of the time

• During the installation, no timezone is available except as tied to geographic locale

• During the installation, the trackpad for System76 Gazelle pro is not found

• The default source.list leaves the CD ROM repository enabled

• RPCBind is installed by default, remove it please

• Backports should pin to a low priority, as discussed on the list and elsewhere

How should I provide feedback about the installation process and the defaults?