Hi,
The 1.27 release cycle is coming to a close. We're due for a release of it
come next month. Looking at the calendar, I'm going to pencil in the
following dates for branching and so forth:
* May 2nd - Cut REL1_27 and bump master to 1.28.0-alpha. The train
cycle that week would then switch over to 1.28.0-wmf.1
* Week of May 16th - Do a release candidate
* May 30/31st - Release MediaWiki 1.27.0
If you've got any big things you were wanting to land for 1.27, now would
be the time to polish them up and get then in master branches :)
-Chad