I think the whole area of packaging is very important, and very broken. I know that a whole new packaging architecture is coming soon, but now when.

In the past 3 weeks, I have had "internal system errors" - the SF equivalent of the Blue Screen of death several times, all repeatable, all with the packaging process. There have been at least three slip-streamed releases that have fixed it so far.

But managed packages are a real pain to deal with. The Force.com IDE is good for one-of installations, but not much more.

Also, a discussion of what is needed in the force.com IDE. It is good for moving packages around, but I still most of my development right in salesforce.com. Am I doing something wrong?

I want a force.com IDE instruction period for a real user, not just a quick and dirty demo.

Also, a discussion of best practices for Apex code testing.