Dear Drupal community: I love you dearly, and I would love to look at all of your patches! However, we're down to the wire here trying to work hard on several very important initiatives over the next ten days, including:

• File and image handling in core
• Translatable Fields
• Various D7UX improvements
• Various API improvements
• Clean-ups to the theme system
• Important groundwork for Drupal distributions
• Plugin manager (automated module/theme updates) in core
• Tons of misc. API-changing clean-ups and features that would make D7 even more awesome.

So, if your patch:

- is against documentation or user-facing strings (stuff in t())
- adds tests
- fixes bugs, in a way that does not change APIs (function xxx() lines, db schema, etc.)
- is minor coding standards clean-up
- doesn't affect the XHTML output of Drupal

...then please consider not pinging me about it in IRC for the next 10 days so that I can focus time and energy on some of these bigger, scarier patches that must get in before 9/1. After code freeze, I am very happy to look at those other kinds of patches! :) Until then, consider helping out in one of these areas, or check http://drupal.org/community-initiatives/drupal-core and http://drupal.org/project/issues/search/drupal?issue_tags=API+change for others.

My sanity thanks you. :)