Comment 97 for bug 296867

> If I submitted a patch and it got reviewed and approved prior to feature freeze then the patch would be committed correct?

If upstream agrees on the way the fix is done yes

> I see the release date for Natty is April 28, 2011, but when would the feature freeze date be?

the reply to that was in the previous comment

> I also had a question about sponsorship, if I create a branch and then submit it with a correct debdiff, then someone will review it and thus sponsor me at that time, automatically?

Either use a debdiff and subscribe the ubuntu-sponsors team or do a merge request on launchpad