If you follow debian-devel-announce at all, then you’ve seen this message posted to it in the past few days: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/07/msg00001.html.
I’ve been following this with some interest for quite some time now, having gotten an AMD64 laptop early this year, and like many other people who I’ve come into contact with on OPN/Freenode’s #debian-amd64, Chris Cheney himself not excepted, I would like to see the AMD64 port an official part of Debian.
Currently, the “third-party” porting process of Debian to AMD64 is going extremely well, but it is being held up by several things, because it is more difficult for people to get it and try it if it is not on the Debian mirrors, and because some package maintainers do not wish to even look into fixing AMD64-related packaging bugs (until it is an official port). There’s been at least one instance of somebody downgrading a reported bug in the Debian BTS to Wishlist, although most maintainers have been supportive.
Anyway, the non-communicativeness of the Debian ftpmasters team is also the subject of a rant from Eduard Block (who made an excellent set of network install CD images of Debian–the one I prefer to use, in fact).
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