<quote name="John Mark Vandenberg" date="2015-05-29" time="01:39:52 +0700">
It was reported by pywikibot devs almost as soon as we detected that the test wikis were failing in our travis-ci tests. It was 12 hours before a MediaWiki API fix was submitted to Gerrit, and it took four additional *days* to get merged. The Phabricator task was marked Unbreak Now! all that time.
Which shows the tooling works, but not the social aspects. The backport process (eg SWAT and related things) will improve soon as well which should address much of this.
Not-a-great-response-but: can you specifically ping me in phabricator (I'm @greg) for issues like that above?