2010/12/6 Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org:
Presumably you mean that we would create REL1_17 now, as a copy from trunk, then run make-wmf-branch in January, which would copy from REL1_17 to 1.17wmf1, to be deployed shortly after. Then we would tag for release of 1.17 beta 1 some time after that.
That's the correct approach indeed, thanks for correcting me or I would've done it wrong.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)