You know, the best thing about Linux is that nobody forces you to use anything that you don't want to. In other words, not one person is forcing anybody to use or to contribute to Mandrake. If you feel that you are not getting what you need from Mandrake, then for heaven's sake please go find another distribution that can give you what you are looking for (TurboLinux, RedHat, gentoo, debian, etc., etc.).
This thread started as an interesting conversation about how the Mandrake community could be made better, but now it's turned into "debian is the best, it does everything Mandrake does only better, let's all do debian" (especially from Gustavo). Fine. Go do debian and SHUT UP! Nobody is stopping you. Flame away. TTFN, Lonnie Borntreger