Despite some frustration during the code freeze, this looks very much like a job well done. Therefore, I don't think the system is fundamentally broken or doomed as some people try to make us believe. There is room for improvement, but let's not neglect the fact that we did a really great job.
I don't think the system is fundamentally flawed and I'm certainly not knocking the D6 effort (I did a lot of reviewing for the D5 release but lack of time so far has prevented mt getting involved in D6). All I was pointing out is that there does exist a bottleneck and in order to get through it either you make sure your patch is worthy of review and it's RTBC status or widen the bottleneck itself to allow more through. But Jeff's post clarified that point. You need the former rather than the later as there's always going to be a "final review". They're only meant as suggestions to a problem people are perceiving, not complaints there's something wrong ;) As for what happened to Chad, I was sadden by that as a) I didn't get involved and b) it was an admittedly very rare moment where a patch is looking perfect right to the last hurdle and then... --Andy