In our latest blog post, we revisit some great points raised by Ubuntu designer MPT nearly 7 years ago https://medium.com/elementaryos/appcenter-the-future-of-the-universe-1d34f04d1c85
@elementary I don't know how much is done manually, but do you forsee the fast app publishing time to continue as the number of apps increases?
@zeebok So far so good. We're doing as much review automatically as possible and we've identified a number of places we can use more automation :)