Hi,

Can someone with the admin access to https://www.vim.org/ update the
"News" section with a
link to the message from Bram's family?

Regards,
Yegappan

On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 7:13 AM Antonio Giovanni Colombo
<azc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>>

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