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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>     It looks like Junio carried it in "What's Cooking" for almost a
>     year, marked as "waiting for re-roll" to handle the squash, but then
>     eventually discarded it as stale. :(

Heh, thanks for digging.

Is the moral of the story that we should merge down unfinished
topics more aggressively (hoping that the untied loose ends would be
tied after they hit released version), we should prod owners of
stalled topics with sharper stick more often, or something else?