1.7 dates and requests

[Andrew Bennetts]

Aaron Bentley wrote:
[...]
> 
> Sorry, I didn't realize we were in freeze already.  I wouldn't have
> landed feature enhancements and so on.  We've goofed a bit on this, so I
> can agree with pushing everything back a week.  But let's do our best to
> get back on time-based releases.

I agree with pushing it back a week this time (particularly because now Martin
and I are back from holidaying today so there's more man-power to catch up on
reviews and bugs etc this week).  I also agree with Aaron that we should be
getting back to non-slipping time-based releases in general.

-Andrew.