mhershberger@wikimedia.org (Mark A. Hershberger) writes:
The solution I'm proposing is that we branch 1.18 immediately after the release of the 1.17 tarball.
I want to give credit where it is due. Although I haven't seen him propose it here, this is, in fact, Robla's idea. He and I were discussing what needed to happen for 1.18 and it was his idea to branch 1.18 immediately after the release of the 1.17 tarball.
Mark.