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-# DefinitelyTyped [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped)
-
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+# DefinitelyTyped
 
 > The repository for *high quality* TypeScript type definitions.
 
@@ -8,6 +6,19 @@ Also see the [definitelytyped.org](http://definitelytyped.org) website, although
 
 *You can also read this README in [Spanish](https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/blob/master/README.es.md), [Korean](https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/blob/master/README.ko.md), and [Russian](https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/blob/master/README.ru.md)!*
 
+## Current status
+
+This section tracks the health of the repository and publishing process.
+It should give contributors a clue over any issues that they may be experiencing with their PRs and packages.
+
+* All packages are type-checking/linting cleanly: [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped)
+* All packages are being published to npm in under 10,000 seconds: [![Publish Status](https://typescript.visualstudio.com/TypeScript/_apis/build/status/sandersn.types-publisher-watchdog)](https://typescript.visualstudio.com/TypeScript/_build/latest?definitionId=13)
+* [typescript-bot](https://github.com/typescript-bot) hs been active on DefinitelyTyped [![Activity Status](https://typescript.visualstudio.com/TypeScript/_apis/build/status/sandersn.typescript-bot-watchdog)](https://typescript.visualstudio.com/TypeScript/_build/latest?definitionId=14)
+
+If anything here seems wrong, or any of the above are failing, please raise an issue in [the DefinitelyTyped Gitter channel](https://gitter.im/borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped).
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+
 ## What are declaration files?
 
 See the [TypeScript handbook](http://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/declaration-files/introduction.html).
@@ -342,6 +353,3 @@ This project is licensed under the MIT license.
 Copyrights on the definition files are respective of each contributor listed at the beginning of each definition file.
 
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