There are other problems too: See the packege "maegirls". The version in testing has a bug fix and portrait mode support but it cannot be promoted yet. This prevents us from uploading versions with minor changes since they take forever to be uploaded. For example, the last version of maegirls has a typo in its description but I'm not going to fix this and loose the 6 votes it collected in 2 months.

Once again, IMHO, the 10 votes requirement is not a good thing. It makes the process a popularity contest instead of a QA process. It also somehow discourages authors and testers. Again, I've not seen any argument in favour of 10 instead (e.g) of 5 or 20.

Also, testing serves as an intermediate repository for packages that work correctly but have some glitches. Perhaps if there was another repository, where those packages could be promoted from testing with fewer votes, the queue would be reduced. Something like extras-not-so-testing.

My 0.02 euros.