Optimize 1.8 Schedule for news coverage

[Christian Stimming]

Dear all,

the latest 1.8 schedule 
http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2002-November/007402.html 
proposed a final 1.8.0 release on Dec 22. However, that whole week of 
Dec 22 will probably be busy will before-Christmas stuff. I think that 
News coverage about our final release on the major sites (e.g. slashdot 
for US, heise.de for Germany) is probably much less if we indeed come 
out in that week. Therefore I propose to move 1.8.0 either forward or 
backward in time. Either the quick schedule:

Dec 1: 1.7.4 Deep freeze (no new features until after 1.8.0)
Dec 15: 1.7.5 Release candidate
Dec 19: 1.8.0 Final

Or the relaxed schedule:

Dec 1: 1.7.4
Dec 15: 1.7.5
Dec 24: 1.7.6 (or somewhere around that date) Release Candidate
Jan 5: 1.8.0 Final

What do people think? For me and HBCI, the current code is IMHO stable 
enough to make the quick schedule. Are there still missing parts that 
are essential for 1.8? I know of

* Currency exchange transaction Dialog; responsible: Derek -- seems like 
it is not yet fully implemented. I might have a look at that today or 
tomorrow, too, so it is not yet clear whether it can make it into 1.7.4.

More comments?

Christian