@holgerschurig thanks for your opinions - for note, I already actively work on the Debian project by maintaining the bulk of this code and more in Debian, and use testing on my devices by default as I don’t wish to run unstable and I submit bug reports and patches to other parts of the project.
There are some software packages here that will be too complicated in a few ways to submit upstream, or that the author doesn’t want upstreamed but hold utility for users of this project and I wanted to centralise in a way our group could understand. I’ve taken a few shortcuts here and there too that would make ftp-master never speak to me again!
The testing build is actually built against unstable for the moment, so if people want to run that but I’d rather direct users towards testing if they’re unhappy with the age of stable and involve them in bug reports than tell them to run unstable, which has a less comfortable name for those involved in the project. I’m also uncomfortable putting not-fully-Debian people in the path of partial transitions that the testing hold will prevent.
As you can see from my list of distros, I also target stable.