paulirwin commented on issue #1141: URL: https://github.com/apache/lucenenet/issues/1141#issuecomment-2714760879
Hello, thanks for asking. We're working hard to get beta 18 done at this point, which hopefully will be our last beta. You can follow our progress (or chip in yourself!) at our beta 18 milestone: https://github.com/apache/lucenenet/milestone/11 - many of those items have PRs already or are waiting on ICU4N or J2N updates that are either waiting to go or in progress. I hope we can get beta 18 done soon, probably not by the end of this month, but maybe April? There's only two of us doing most of the work currently and we're pushing as hard as we can. I'm working nights and weekends on this in my personal time. Without additional community help, it'll take longer. Meanwhile, it would help us greatly if everyone can kick the tires on the beta 17 NuGet package, or better yet if you can, the latest master code. Just using the library and letting us know if you have any issues would be very helpful. Beta 17 has had 400,000+ downloads in the last 4 months since the last release, with near zero reported issues. The 4.8 betas have been pretty stable for quite a while, and many people use them in production. The only reason for continuing with the "beta" moniker is that we do have some more breaking changes to do to the API, and we want to stabilize the API at beta 18. After beta 18, we'll move towards a release candidate and then final/GA release with a stable API. That will constitute a lot of benchmarking, unit test, demo, and documentation work, that you can see at the 4.8.0 milestone: https://github.com/apache/lucenenet/milestone/1 My current personal goal (speaking only for myself) is to have the GA release done this summer, but it'll certainly help meet that goal if we can get more community contributions. @NightOwl888 and myself (along with some of our other not-currently-active PMC members and committers) would certainly be glad to help with any startup friction or issues you have jumping in to contribute. Don't hesitate to reach out. We need the help and would be happy to help get anyone up and running as a contributor! Closing this issue as I believe I've answered the question as best as we possibly can, but feel free to respond with any questions or comments. -- 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: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
