CI Development Cycle

[eluser]Kyle Johnson[/eluser]
So I've been monitoring some of the changes to the CodeIgniter git repository, but I'm noticing that there are commits that don't end up making it into the master or stable branches. Even though they are in the develop branch, or the feature/db_forge branch.

I'm curious how long it takes for a merge to make it up to the master branch for an official release. Obviously some make it up before others, but something like (https://github.com/EllisLab/CodeIgniter/pull/719) which was committed 8 months ago still hasn't made it through.

Would love to see that one be officially released, but understand that there may be concerns with it (but those seem to have been addressed in the pull request). The guidelines on the Github page state, "If nobody has a problem with the change then it will be merged into develop and will be part of the next release." So it made it into the develop branch 8 months ago, but hasn't made it to a stable branch yet.

Can anyone enlighten me?