I would just like to counter what Eyal Rosenberg says. Version number
should be a marketing decision.
But I agree with his points that marketing must consider that major
innovations or missing features should be included with a major number
change otherwise said number change will fall flat.
The
Hi Italo,
the change from 6.x to 7.0 happens together with the change from ODF 1.2
to ODF 1.3. If the decision it to keep this kind of numbering, I think a
change to 8.0 should happen when LibreOffice starts support for ODF 1.4.
ODF 1.4 will hopefully be released end of 2024.
Kind regards,
* Italo Vignoli (it...@libreoffice.org) wrote:
> Moving to LibreOffice 8 (instead of 7.6) makes sense for marketing purposes,
> as media is looking at LibreOffice as the real innovator in the open source
> office suite market, and the feeling of journalists is that we are forever
> stuck at 7.x.
>
For little that I am involved with LibreOffice itself,
I feel like this would be nice move -
You can take this as a non-formal feedback of the
casual user public: +1 for 8.0, even without a lot
of remarkable changes.
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 2:11 PM Italo Vignoli wrote:
> Moving to LibreOffice
