To do a good work, of course! You should be making good progress in research and do a thorough work on every project you undertake. Sometimes it takes long time to write some program or to learn a new skill. Take time and do it right. This will pay off in your future research. Each acquired skill greatly speeds up your progress in the future. Invest a lot of energy and enthusiasm in everything you do, even if it is a class presentation. This will help you do a high quality work that everyone will appreciate.

You should strive to publish at least 1-2 papers a year, to meet your 8-10 paper goal for the graduation within a reasonable time frame. This generally means that you should submit to 3-4 conferences and/or journals each year, on the average. There will be years when you are just coding and cannot publish a thing. There will be other years when your work matures and you are able to generate a lot of papers.

I also expect you to work to meet deadlines we both agree on. It may sometimes happen that you are unable to finish working on the paper for the deadline. That's fine. But don't let it happen every time.