patches

As of today, we are now only two weeks from the Drupal 7 code freeze. When we hit Sept. 1, from then on in, only bug fixes will be worked on (no new features), as everyone focuses on generally improving the code and how it functions. Because of the deadline coming up, there is a lot of focus on getting new patches committed to HEAD before Sept. 1, and to get the patches committed, they need to be reviewed by the community and given a stamp of approval. As of 11:41am PST today, the D7 queue contains:

Last week Ariane was in on #drupal on irc.freenode.net and heard some of the core developers talking about how badly backlogged the patch review queue is. Apparently there are many good patches that haven't been reviewed and therefore haven't made it into the current release. Each of these little patches helps to make Drupal more robust and with the Drupal 7 code freeze creeping up, this is an area that needs extra help. At Affinity Bridge we have been talking about how to contribute more to Drupal core and this seemed like a good opportunity to get involved. We decided to put some of our time into helping out and realized we could use a little mentoring to get started. Ariane put the word out on Twitter and soon we had a volunteer to help us. Yesterday we were lucky enough to have Karoly Negyesi (aka chx on Drupal.org) come by and teach us about core patch reviews and the Drupal issue queue.