Suggest a few people willing to test show up at the 'bug-fest' on Tuesday evening on IRC.

The other thing that I personally have found helpful is contacting the dev of something I'm interested in, and volunteering to test one-to-one. That way I can get an honest opinion of where it is in the system (still unstable or stable but rough at the edges) and make an imforned choice about testing. And I can give back the sort of feedback that the dev wants rather than just voting. Not sure how all the debs would react to this wau of doing stuff, though.