Humour me while I play DA for a moment:

given the current situation (not enough active testers even with the "supertester" kludge, Fremantle never going to be a mass market OS and existing user base is shrinking), is the whole testing thing still needed/wanted? Has it ever caught a "bad" package before (I recall one case of an author abusing the test process, though the package itself was benign) or is it merely tiger repellant?

Maybe Fremantle extras package maintainers should also be allowed to handle promotion themselves?