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[Jon Sackett <jonathan.sackett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> - 4 hour test suites [highly delayed feedback]
> - testfix *existing* [after your 4 hour check, it can still bounce]
> - a high rate of spurious errors (> 1% is high, and I'm pretty sure
> thats the case)
> - folk working on many things at once (which is itself a result of
> the 4 hour queue)

From the perspective of a newer developer, you have succinctly grabbed the basic problems I have with getting branches from Approved to  Merged. If it weren't for the fact that the number of balls I'm juggling is pretty low right now, I'm sure branches would start being forgotten.

//j.c.sackett