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We’re doing all the development under the next branch, a big rewrite to typescript :)

Ok :- ) Thanks for the reply. Curious about the new features / benefits / things you'll add, is there any roadmap? (didn't find in GitHub or the blog) (If you're doing more things than moving to Typescript. Typescript is great b.t.w. :- ))

We're working on a more public roadmap, but the move to Typescript also allowed us to switch out Apollo on the client side with Relay as well as some other pretty significant improvements to the software as a whole (as you said, TS is pretty great :) )

Sounds like something Github should implement - indicate the latest activity anywhere instead of just the master branch. I too will scan the last activity and shrug if they don't seem to have been updated for a year.

Can you configure the dev branch to show up on the landing page of github?

Yes:

Settings -> Branches -> Default branch

We have our develop branch set up, which tracks all the contributions as you would expect. We treat our master branch as a latest release branch.

We've considered doing that, we're just supporting a lot of newsrooms still on our latest stable release (v4) as we put the finishing touches on our newest release (v5). Super excited to share some of the advancements we've made, using lots of really neat tech!

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