[wp-hackers] Unanswered tickets

[Bob]

OK, I guess it's my turn to list my tickets:

http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5407
"Improve wp_list_authors efficiency"  has-patch 2nd-opinion
Waiting for someone to decide if this belongs in the core.

http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4616
"is_email isn't rfc2822 conformant"
Waiting for info on why email addresses are run through wp_specialchars() 
and if that's really necessary.