i wish the changes to ubuntu repositories to be done faster
and i think the core distro can stay unchanged a little bit longer
but some apps should and must move faster than the rest of the distro
like:openoffice , firebird 2.1, lazarus , fpc

because stable releases are already there and the intrepid is already dated at the release

also i think the gentoo ideea with continuous upgrade to be good
at least for me is better to have latest stable applications and kernel

also backports in ubuntu is completely broken so is better to use the next release or debian experimental to be up to date with all apps