It almost always means "bugs blocking release" in my experience. Usually the sentence I quoted is developer speak for "it's framed out, and the core functionali

It almost always means "bugs blocking release" in my experience. Usually the sentence I quoted is developer speak for "it's framed out, and the core functionality has been shown to work under this scheme," or "all of the known-to-be-risky stuff is done and all that's left is tedium," or perhaps some cross between the two. It's not malicious. You could argue it's negligent, but I would only agree with that assessment if the Dev in question doesn't include the "it just has some bugs that need fixing" bit and is attempting to see what he/she can squeak by QA because he/she doesn't want to work on that thing anymore. Otherwise it just reflects the difference in focus between writing code and building a product.