FWIW, STATUS on the 2.x branches is cleaned up in anticipation of the T&R (there are no open patches for 1.3, afaik).
If you haven't already, I encourage everyone to 'svn up' and at least run some prelim tests before I do the actual T&R. I've been working on getting my old Blade (Sol8) up and running (something's happened to it since I last booted it up) and test there (as well as on OS X and SUSE) before I tag. So it would be useful to get some prelim feedback that we are ready for a tag if others can test.
