patch pilot report

[Martin Pool]

I was patch pilot last week, and I made some amount of progress,
though I did not totally empty the queue.  We still have about 20
proposals in <https://code.launchpad.net/bzr/+activereviews> including
a big swathe of config refactorings by Vincent.

Our PQM is now running Ubuntu Lucid and testing by default on python
2.6.5.  We will keep supporting python2.4 by testing it in the Babune
build network.

Just with perfect comedic timing, we landed something that would have
broken selftest (though not bzr itself) on python2.4, but this has now
been pulled back out.

John is keeping up a stream of working tree performance improvements
including most recently making 'revert' do less work to find the files
to revert.

There are a few things that deserve special pilot attention next week:

 * <https://code.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/bzr/diffoptions/+merge/54139>
is languishing, and probably should have the tests written and
integrated by the pilot.

 * Denys has posted a couple of illustrative patches to the list and
they ought to be written up and tested by the pilot too.

 * A few bugs recently had patches attached, and it would be good to
also finish them off and bring them in: see
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-date_last_updated&field.has_patch=on>

Over to you, Jelmer,

Martin