Understood. Is there any path to take to try and encourage it's inclusion in the 1.6 release without driving anyone crazy (non-annoying persistance)?
non-annoying persistence is OK. You can vote on the bug in BugZilla - I do look at the votes to see how many people bugs/enhancements are affecting. It's not the only criterion, of course.
For the past few weeks, I have been focussing on bugs to try and get as many bugs cleared up for the 1.5.2 release. My intention is now to address the enhancements and bugs more evenly for the 1.6 release. Eventually someone will get to it.
Conor