Zoltan Arpadffy wrote: > This is truly shocking - I do not have a word. > I just sent Bram a mail about a week ago - with no answer - when he > replied mails almost immediately in the past 20+ years. > > I am so sad. > My deepest condolences to the family. > > I have been in contact with Bram since 1998 - when I started to work > on the OpenVMS port and I am still maintaining the OpenVMS related > code and distributing the VMS executable packages on > http://polarhome.com/vim/ > > I am working on the the patch for Vim 9.0 and for the new x86_64 VMS > port (beside VAX, AXP and IA64) > I have had sent him my patches directly that he merged into the > eleases. > > Ken, Chris could you please instruct me, how can I continue to > contribute > to the Vim development?
We're all shocked and feel empty with the loss of Bram. Thanks Zoltan for your contributions to Vim since 1998. That's amazing dedication. For now, I suggest to either send patch attachments to this mailing list, or better if you can, to submit git pull requests. A PR is preferable as CI will run and it makes it easier for people to review contributions. Code reviews were always important, but they have become even more important now the gate-keeper Bram is no longer here. I assume it will take some time before we figure out how to merge changes to the master branch. So PR may stay open for a while. Let's be patient. I will also try to contribute, as much as I can. I fear that some of the Vim internals are hard to maintain without Bram. I hope the community will step up to the challenge and honor Bram's project by continuing its development. Even if I have a personal preference for Vim rather than Neovim for various reasons (no need to go into details as to why here), it's clear that Neovim showed that the community was able to make impressive deep changes to Vim's code. Neovim still depended on Vim and Bram's work to some extent (regularly merging Vim patches). And Neovim was standing on the shoulders of giants by reusing Vim's code. So I hope that some of the Neovim developers can also help continuing the Vim development adventure. Regards Dominique -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/CAON-T_g2KEkqcYo46BkEGxqNR_x%2Bypuj0AquFaF638d97vaEjA%40mail.gmail.com.
