i'm hoping to get a little discussion going here prior to the actual session. see here for a summary what the current outlook/goals for the session are.

i'm looking for ideas on what specifically we might want to cover in this discussion. What are our roadblocks to making big changes in drupal happen more easily?

Here's some initial things i think would be great to address:

1. The patch queue -- Woefully underpowered for bigger projects. What are our alternatives?
2. Test sites -- Bigger changes might greatly benefit from having a test site set up. It should lead to more testing as it eliminates the barrier of creating the test environment. Can we put a system in place for this?
3. Encouraging small group development -- one person writing a 100K patch is simply inefficient. What systems can we put into place that will not just offer the tools for small group development, but actually encourage it??

Please throw in your ideas/comments, and I'll try to form a coordinated session plan out of it all... :)