Peter van Rooijen wrote:

> 
> Does this seem like a workable scenario for improving the throughput of at
> least the process for fixing bugs in the base image? If the plan has some
> validity, how can it be improved?
> 

I think most of this is right on. Two points: 
There are people finding and fixing bugs that don't know how to write
tests. 
(probably not that many in this category)

There are GUI and usability bugs. These are hard to write tests for.

Karl