Team Goals for the Week of October 23

We have been thinking it would be useful to share our team goals with the community on a regular basis - so folks have a clearer idea of what we're working on (without wading through the details in the Issue Tracker). We currently have 39 open issues on the 1.6 queue - and we need to knock-off at least 10 next week in order to be on-track for 1.6 beta. Here's the issues we'd definitely like to resolve:

• Link custom fields to specific types of activities, relationships, etc. (CRM-1177).
• Get CiviMember membership signup working with PayPal Express (CRM-1307).
• Add support for free membership signup. This should also allow for contribution pages which solicit in-kind (non-monetary) contributions.
• Implement Access Control (ACL) functionality for searches and custom data (CRM-1308).
• Implement CiviContribute plugin for an additional payment processor (Authorize.net or possibly PayPal Website Payments Standard).
• Move CiviCRM Configuration Settings into the database and provide an admin interface for editing them (CRM-1291).
• Integrate latest AMaViS package into CiviMail (CRM-1178).