Just so that you are aware, a few of us are volunteering to begin a regular process of testing packages at least for clean installs and uninstalls.
I imagine as part of the process some discussion and planning will take place on what to do about deprecated packages and so forth.
As of Saturday we have xowiki up and running fairly cleanly (thanks Dave and Gustaf), and after I clean up a bunch of pages I hope to outline some basic procedures for testing.
You are welcome to join in and help us test and setup testing processes and stages if you like - certainly I would like to invinte the whole community to chime in on the issue and see where we go from there.
In conclusion, my point is simply this: some things are starting to move, give us enough time to affect visible change tho.
I will keep everyone appraised of where what and how.