Hi everybody, I too will miss Bram a lot.
I am a minor contributor to Vim, for the translation of messages. I have been in touch with Bram since the Nineties, and even visited him in Venlo. I used to send new versions of language related files, like e.g. "src/po/it.po" directly to Bram, who included them in the Vim distribution without the need of patches. Pending further decisions, I will send future modifications of such files to Christian Brabandt. This is not only about me, but about a group of other translators. Bram sometimes sent mail to this group, just before a new version of Vim was in sight. VALE, Bram! We will try to keep up the good work. Antonio Il giorno dom 6 ago 2023 alle ore 21:43 Dominique Pellé < dominique.pe...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > 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 > . > -- -- 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/CAFuJYvvEnGPewcXXZpOdcO5Kgp6HcESmPJ%3Dn_vCb8BsOw8xBww%40mail.gmail.com.
