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Nice writeup!
I said it once and i'll say it again. Drupal is similar to linux kernel in many ways. It requires a modern version control system and a feature branches. each branch to have a dedicated maintainer. core commiters will have more time to review important and massive changes because they mostly are responsible for merging branches. more people can get involved without losing quality.
For example maintainers of a huge module like views should be able to have feature branch commit access. who else understand that module better than its maintainers? when it has become stable then they can ask for merging the branch into the core.

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