Felipe Contreras wrote:

> On Monday, May 31, 2021 at 11:50:10 AM UTC-5 Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> > The work on Vim 9 is making progress. Most of the syntax has settled 
> > down, but there are still a few todo items and we need to make sure 
> > everything works well before we can launch it. You can read more about 
> > it in the Vim9 help: 
> > https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/runtime/doc/vim9.txt 
> >
> > It's hard to plan this, best I can say is that it still takes a few 
> > months. Once we release it we want to stay backwards compatible again, 
> > so as not to break your Vim 9 plugins. We better make sure we get it 
> > right, rather than rushing it out.
> 
> Have you considered making a release candidate?

There is a release candidate every day on github.

> If you do want to try to get it right it's better to invite as many people 
> as possible to make comments, and most vim developers are not subscribed to 
> the mailing list. Making a public announcement of a release candidate will 
> ensure many eyes will be looking at the proposal.

You make a lot of assumptions.  Anyway, most people find their way to
github and can grab the latest version.  That has worked fairly well so
far.

> If you don't there's a good chance useful suggestions will come too late.

That's always a problem with "releases", people just wait until the
final release before trying it out.  Every submitted change is a
release, in a way.

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