paulirwin commented on issue #793:
URL: https://github.com/apache/lucenenet/issues/793#issuecomment-2429568279

   Let's please leave out comments like that about elderly people. However, I 
understand and sympathize with the sentiment of the rest of your message. Those 
of us that are actively working on this project are currently giving it all we 
can to get this done.
   
   To provide an update which is due anyways, we are nearly done with preparing 
the next release. The ICU4N and J2N releases to support .NET 8 and satellite 
assemblies are done and dependencies upgraded, so that we can now target .NET 
8, which is PR #928 that was just merged today. This should hopefully be the 
last _major_ item for the beta 17 release. We are reviewing now to see if there 
are any remaining issues that need to be included. This will be our first beta 
release in a couple years and we're eager to get it done, but we also want to 
get any breaking changes out of the way all at once.
   
   After the beta 17 release, my personal goal is to help us get to a final 
"RTM" release of 4.8 this calendar year if at all possible. We'll need the 
community's help in testing the beta 17 release to make sure it's solid. This 
means not only filing bugs, but letting us know in the affirmative that it's 
working well for your workload so that we can have some confirmation of our 
work and how it is being used. Please **do not** jump in to port post-4.8 
features at this time; any PRs for these will likely be closed and your efforts 
might be wasted. Likewise, we apologize but we are not accepting significant 
architectural changes (library structure, .NET version, C# language features, 
etc.) at this time. We can't have this be a moving goalpost; we need to focus 
on getting the release done.
   
   Stay tuned, we're pushing hard, and we'll hopefully have a beta 17 release 
ready for testing very, very soon.


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