We have a plenty of time and we dedicate one full-time developer for this project.
How about having that, and perhaps others, developer participate in reviewing patches and getting to the bottom of the commitfest? Should we end up being done early, we can look at this patch... There's not been review activity corresponding to the amount of submissions from pgpro...
This patch has been moved to CF 2017-07.
Yes, after committing XMLTABLE, we anyway need to extend its infrastructure to support JSON_TABLE.