paulirwin commented on issue #793: URL: https://github.com/apache/lucenenet/issues/793#issuecomment-2441693672
Yeah, I'm going to close this. The short answer to the original question is "when it's done." The longer answer is explained above. We are currently actively in the middle of releasing beta 17 within the next couple days, then there will be a beta 18 release, and then if all goes well, that might be the last beta before a final release (possibly with a RC in there? idk). Depending on how fast our active contributors (myself included) can finish this work up, and based on how many contributions we get from the community for the 4.8 open items (see the 4.8.0-beta00018 and 4.8.0 milestones), that will determine how long it takes to wrap this release up. My goal of by the end of this calendar year is looking unlikely for the final release, but I'm certainly going to push to have beta 18 done by then. And I know the remaining work is not the "fun stuff." It's chasing down failing tests and reviewing assertions and fixing satellite assemblies and documentation and whatnot. Yep, that's what we're going through now. But it's the long tail of "boring" work to finish up a stable release. Again, please do not submit PRs for any post-4.8 features at this time, otherwise it might be a while before it can be merged, it will go stale or have merge conflicts, and just be a burden to keep open. Although we might accept small, isolated bugfixes that are backported from post-4.8 versions iff they don't change the public API, include all tests, include comments explaining the backport, etc. If you have any questions and want to ensure you're not wasting effort, please file an issue for the backport with a link to the original Java project commit/PR, and ask us if we would accept the fix for the 4.8 release. If all looks good we'll give you any feedback or the greenlight to proceed. If you're looking to contribute now, we desperately need help with the remaining items in those two 4.8.0-beta00018 and 4.8.0 milestones above all else. There are several there marked "up-for-grabs." Thanks! -- 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
