All,
Just a friendly heads-up that the branch point for MediaWiki 1.35.0 is coming up faster than you expect; we're currently on 1.35.0-wmf.20, and 1.35.0-wmf.7 (in seven weeks' time, *i.e.* on 7 April 2020) will be the final alpha of 1.35, and thus where I cut REL1_35 ahead of rc.0.[0]
There are a lot of proposed blockers to the 1.35 release currently tagged on Phabricator[1] (and no doubt some of you have vague plans but don't have them marked out yet). Please do get them done, or re-assess the timeline for your work, and don't get caught out!
[0] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap [1] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/MW-1.35-release
Thanks!