On 2016-01-20 10:40:14 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> We have gotten off of that cycle in the last two major releases, and
> this isn't going to improve as long as we have commitfests starting
> after January.
I think this has very little to do with commitfest schedules, and much
more with the "early" forking of the new version branch. For both 9.4
and 9.5 we essentially spent a couple months twiddling our thumbs.