How about gnucash-1.8.8 soon?

[Christian Stimming]

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Dear all,

the 1.8 branch has seen some minor fixes and improvements over the last weeks. 
I propose to release another version, 1.8.8, sometime soon. 

Would a 1.8.8 release next Sunday, October 26th, be good? What do people 
think?

Current Changes for 1.8.8 include:
- - Updated Italian, German, Catalan translation
- - HBCI direct debits fixed
- - Updated Greek, German ("SKR04"), Swiss German ("KMU") account templates
- - Fixed problem with date length

And what about the planning for 1.10 or 2.0? October is almost finished now. 
If we decide to have a new stable series released *this* year (i.e. 1.10 in 
mid-December), we would need to start with the 1.9.x releases *right now* for 
testing/translation etc. On the other hand, if we decide to have a new stable 
series released next year, then we could also decide to deliver a gnome2 port 
and plan for a 2.0 release sometime February. In that case we could start 
with 1.9.x releases sometime in November and merge the gnome2 branch onto 
HEAD in December. The GNOME2_STATUS document explains nicely what still needs 
to be done. In my opinion it is probably possible to have most of these 
issues finished by the beginning of next year. Or somewhat like that. :-)

Regards,

Christian
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