Meetup Summary Pencils down on changes b…

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Pencils down on changes being committed to trunktrunk A directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running "trunk", then you are on the latest revision. will be at 6PM UTC (11AM PST), Friday, June 11. Approximately 2 hours after that, RC3 will be released. After pencils down, patches being committed to trunk will require the review & approval of one of the lead devs. If there is a patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. or bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. you want to get in, get on it.

The second half of the meetup was a discussion of outstanding tickets to have patches committed before the pencil down.