Folks,
We are now in code freeze, so all patches that are not obviously harmless need to have a justification as to why the patch should be applied. In most cases, that simply means pointing to the corresponding bug that is fixed by the patch.
Patches that seem risky will be marked pending or deferred. If you still think they should go in, you should convince me that they fix something important that is worth the risk.
Patches that only change the tests can't break apps so they will be accepted freely, at least until we get closer to release.
Patches that require translation updates will only be accepted for the next two weeks, to give translators time to catch up afterwards.
I'm planning to make rc releases every week until we run out of bugs. The release schedule may be a bit more random than usual because of travel constraints (not to mention skiing constraints ;-)