Many seem to think 12mos release schedule after that is better. So, we would potentially standardize to always release in the Fall.
Most seem to like the ideas of several "beta" releases before feature freeze.
Some discussion of Documentation process
We need a Documentation Team – Jeff cannot do this alone
The wiki is working well, but we need a group to keep us "honest". At the end of the 1.7.0 release, there was a scramble to fix docs issues, because of a lack of pre-planning & no team to double check things as we went along.
Ideas/proposals on improving Documentation process are welcome.