Publish a 1.x development release

It turns out that I only couldn't create a new branch due to a known 💬 Can't create new branch in Gitlab Closed: works as designed issue → with Drupal Gitlab.

It also turns out that the recommendation is to not publish a development release → . I will close this issue, since it is not a fast moving project that is almost ready to be marked feature complete and minimally maintained (not bad things to be, by the way). If the community wishes to re-open this issue, do comment.