Branch Update

I sent the following email to the Concerto team mailing last week, and wanted to share it here as well. It’s also a great test to see if we can still post new content to this blog or not. Stay tuned!

Hello Hello!

Long time no email :) I hope your December is off to a good start.

I wanted to send a heads up that I’m planning to rename the Concerto “master” branch to something like “2.x”, and substantially overhaul the codebase on a new “master” (or maybe “main”) branch in the coming week or so.

If you have pending changes for the existing Concerto 2.x codebase, now would be a great time to ship them - or be on the lookout to change your target branch.

I’ve been slowly chipping away at bringing Concerto up to modern standards - Rails 8.1, Vue 3, TailwindCSS, etc and I almost have enough features working locally that I’m comfortable with an MVP to start getting feedback from our users. Demo link to come when the initial page load performance is less embarrassing.

Given the very inconsistent attention I’ve dedicated to the project over the past… decade?… I’m trying to optimize for long-term stability; stripping away all of my complicated ideas around plugins and modularity in favor of one big application that dependabot can keep updated on a weekly basis.

If you’re interested in helping out, let me know - I’ll also be cleaning up Github Issues to track different work items you’re always welcome to grab.

Let me know if you have any questions, comments, or concerns!