Posted by webchick on June 30, 2011 at 9:01pm
I wrote up a proposal at http://drupal.org/node/1205640 to make distributions (polished Drupal products) a separate concept than installation profiles (Drupal + some starter code) on the Drupal.org site.
A big problem with distributions taking off is their utter lack of visibility, so this might be one approach.
Please chime in on that issue if you have thoughts! :) (Comments turned off here to keep discussion in one place).