For 5 recent bugs that have patches but are still open, sort out the ones that have been merged vs. the ones that need to be processed.  E.g. answer these questions:

Is there a comment that the patch was merged?
Lacking that, is there a "looks good" comment by someone authoritative?
For the ones that don't say they're merged, check Launchpad to see if they in trunk.
If not in trunk, try the patch and post a "looks good" if it works.