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. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucenenet.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org