I'm quite happy how things are going lately, probably I'll be working on our Custom Distribution Packages next week at work and will be able to do real testing and development with them, something I'm willing to do since this summer.
Besides, the debian-custom list is quite active again, and after messages from mako (from Ubuntu) this weekend also Ian Murdock from Progeny (and a wanna be developer ...;) has started to post to the list.
I'll be very happy if we find sponsors for the CDD devcamp Petter Reinholdsten proposed, because it seems it will speed things up and it's scheduling is great for our project plans, if anybody reading knows someone interested in sponsoring such a meeting please write to the list... ;)