I don't think it was a problem of committers. To me it was a problem of reviewers. Those are very scarce (for the bigger items it's mostly only Tom). Maybe a better SCM could help with this, but I doubt it. As an example, I did read the autovacuum patch, but I had no useful comment to make on it. Why didn't Jan or Bruce say something about it? What about Neil or Joe Conway? If any of them could have had useful feedback, they didn't have the time to do it.
Unfortunately due to other commitments, personal and professional, I haven't had time to do much this development cycle :-(. I'm just now able to start getting a bit more active again.
But in any case I think your second sentence above gets to the heart of the issue. Postgres is a complex piece of code, and even though I have commit access, I don't understand many parts of it well enough to do a credible job reviewing others' code (at least not without days of effort just trying to understand what it is that I'm reviewing). Where I have both the time and some knowledge I do try to help, e.g. with plperl.
Joe
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