Hi Florian, Sebastian, On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Florian Effenberger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Sebastian, > > Sebastian Spaeth wrote on 2010-11-01 16.36: >> >> Dear all, all discussions seem to hint at that the first stable release >> of LibreOffice is going to be a 3.3.0 release. I would like to have you >> consider a different version for the following reasons: >> >> - LO 3.3.0 suggests it is equivalent to OOo 3.3.0 (which it is not, we >> have different bugs :-)). Seriously. LO 3.3.0 suggests 100% >> interoperability with OOo which we can't guarantee. >> >> - It is the first release of LO, but we consider it stable and useful, >> so 1.0 would make most sense to me. That shouts "USE ME", but at the >> same time does not convey "I am an OOo ripoff with a different brand >> by some people with too big egos." >> >> I'd love if you could briefly think about that in the next SC >> meeting. I'll be happy about any decision, but it should be discussed >> (and communicated) publicly. > > thanks for the proposal. There have been already discussions about that, and > we came to the conclusion to start with 3.3, but not to follow all version > changes OOo does. Time will tell how our release cycle and future version > numbering would look like. > > I doubt we'll go back to LibO 1.1, now that 3.3 has been announced, but I'm > open for the future which step(s) we want to make.
Agreed, I think we should revise the naming of our version and make our own progression pattern (athouhg not àla Ubuntu please, I love to learn a new English animal name every 6 month, most of the time nobody is able to remember it ;-) and that is easy also to figure out which version between the stable or the developer one. > > Happy to hear thoughts of the other SC members. :-) You've mine :) Kind regards Sophie -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/steering-discuss/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
