How to get organized?

[Allen Curtis <acurtis@onz.com>]

I have been reviewing the Debian developer documentation and I am 
impressed by the level of coordination. What can we do to implement the 
same thing? Are the tools to itemize packages available to us? IMHO 
this is the starting point. Identify the packages, find people to 
maintain and/or create those packages, provide a testing environment 
and have a central package distribution point. At this point in time, I 
do not know any of this information.

Does anyone know what these system level tools are? We have a server 
and I will install them.

Thanks

BTW: I have ARM and PPC embedded hardware that I can make available for 
testing. I also have a single BDI2000 with software for either 
architecture. It isn't enough but it is something.