Now that the set of feature goals planned for Ubuntu 7.10 ("Gutsy Gibbon") has been largely finalized, it seems like an appropriate point to announce the plan to the world.
While this is based on the approved blueprints for gutsy[0], which are expected to be implemented in time, we do release according to a time-based schedule[1] rather than a feature-based one. It is not unusual for some planned features to be delayed to later releases; happily it is also not unusual for our developers to introduce neat features we weren't expecting either.