Publish/Expiry options for content

I need way for Drupal content editors to create and approve content to be published on a certain date. The content does not "go-live" until that date.

I also want an expiry date, so that content can expire after an allotted time.

The user story for this is the desire to publish weekly and monthly news, so in effect creating newsletters. Last week's news will expire all at once, while the new week's news goes live at the same time. Same goes for the monthly feature.

I want to handle this generically, so you can define a decoupled "publish type" or something that you select when creating content, that automatically sets the go-live/expiry dates, with the option of per-content overriding. That would be great.

At present I'm going to play around with this:

http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/contributions/sandbox/marco/kjartan/schedu...

and see what it does.

cheers,
bob (bob@evolove.net)