I'm a user and a tester, not a dev, and I know nothing (and don't want to know anything)
about the personal politics between Debian developers. So that's all I'll say on that subject.
To Steve's original point:
First, a big THANK YOU! to Steve for taking this job on. I, for one, an grateful.
I use Debian a lot, but I'm only an occasional user of the Debian Live images.
But when I need them, I need them. And when I need them, I want them to just work.
If having them there and working when I need them means I have to add them to my
list of things to test and report on, I'm willing to make that investment.
Please add me to your "testers" list.
Thank you,
Rick
PS: On a related topic: What I think would be really cool, would be Debian Live images
for some of the ARM architectures. Something I could dd to a USB stick and boot
right away when I get a new box in for testing. Even cooler would be the ability
to use that self-same live image to install Debian after the testing phase was over.