It should be clear that more maintainers and developers with direct access are needed for patches to be applied timely.
I am sure that those on emacs-devel mailing list, Emacs developers, they could help on that, but maybe some of them do not observe this mailing list. Number of not applied patches does not seem to be that large. Project leader shall have his team and delegate them to other developers. This situation badly contradicts to Org mode purposes which is meant to manage patches. Maybe there shall be a published list of developers and project managers, so that this type of communication may be addressd properly. As now original poster explained the problem, but I did not see response from none of pushers, I mean those who have repository access. So how many people are there who have repository access? Who is not busy but willing to apply at least 1-5 patches pending? Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns Sign an open letter in support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/ https://rms-support-letter.github.io/