That quote and those numbers are incredibly misleading, I'm not sure why they use that to prove Node 0.12 isn't coming soon. If you actually look at the issues on Github, only around 30 of those are marked as 0.12, with the rest being various other milestones including 0.13 and 1.0. It has also already been stated that there is only one more 0.11 release before 0.12.