@Jeffro - Yeah, I fully agree with that! If we differentiate between smaller and bigger plugins (but where to draw the line?), I would say bigger plugins would need some "team" rather sooner than later and especially some release cycle strategy. I am also considering some of that for my plugins - that are still small - but I guess it will help to not get behind with the faster and faster WordPress release cycles. That is sometimes really a burden if you have full pressure of client work, family and all the common stuff :).

In the current WordPress.org there are often small updates for plugins, with only the readme.txt changed and/or a few translations added. For the translation scenario the "language pack" feature of WordPress 3.7 will become really handy in future when it's activated for plugins on WordPress.org --- where the translations then will pushed separately and not the whole plugin has to pushed. Nacin said on WordCamp Europe that this might happen within the next 12 months or so. That might save a bit of "update load" or "update anger" for some of us :-)))