I went through JIRA and added the label "pull-request-available" to about 30 PRs that had been marked "fix for 1.18" but we didn't get to[1].
I suggest that we start using the "pull-request-available" label more often. But my bigger point is that we letting our community down when we have such a large backlog of un-merged patches. The committers of this project, collectively, are not staying on top of their work load. Personally, I have been doing as much as I can, including taking on the release manager role when no one else stepped up, and personally committing a very large fraction of the 200+ commits in this release. Maintaining Calcite is NOT part of my responsibilities at my day-job, so I am doing this all in my personal time. It makes me angry that I am shouldering this much of the responsibility. Something needs to change around here. Julian [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20CALCITE%20and%20labels%20%3D%20pull-request-available
