So how is the testnet round 2 going you ask?

What, nobody has asked?

Well, I'll tell you anyway.

We have about 740 DMs elected, and 1740 DMs are running.
So we are half way there (the goal is to have 1440 elected DMs)

It looks like Mr. Spread plans to slightly adjust the parameters of the voting process:

http://spreadcointalk.org/index.php?topic=93.msg1872#msg1872

So in the next version we will get more votes per block (not just 10), and the DMs will need fewer votes to be elected/deelected. (not 30 votes in the last 60 blocks)

This will help the network go thru the voting process faster, so that it will be easier to get elected.

This is important because we need the competitive game of "kicking the weakest DM" to start as fast as possible.

At the moment it takes the small DMs much too long to be elected, and that's unfair and sabotages the competitive game.