Hiring debian devs to get the packages into debian proper could make sense. One thing that dampens our enthusiasm for that at the moment is that our packages are still very unstable, in the sense that the we are releasing materially better version incrementally, say once or twice a month. It is sort of analogous to a rolling release. That works fine with the launchpad model, but if it gets baked into debian, then we need to support some random old version for many years. Perhaps once it has stabilized, that would be something we could work with, but for now, the
launchpad.net model, which supports backporting seamlesslly and allows to support the same version on all distro versions, works better for us. This is something a debian version of launchpad would get us.