I think the problem of ~100 open pull requests needs to be faced better. People that see their patches rot in that list probably don't feel rewarded enough to submit more patches.
So true. I won't do any further work if it's in vain anyway.Also I regularly have to rebase my one cause of conflicts, which is annoying.
I really wonder what Walter's doing. Is he still running the whole testsuite instead of relying on the autotester?