Other than tenderlove and (sort of) myself, nobody is paid to work on Rails. This means that it's an entirely volunteer effort, and people's lives are busy, so sometimes, tickets take a while to merge. I try to stay on top of it actively and thing still sometimes slip through the cracks for me. It's not that you're going about it the wrong way, it's that projects with ~200 open pulls are slow to merge, sometimes. Sorry it's taking so long with this one. :/

I'll bump this up in my personal list; I should really learn AR better anyway.