Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Development will branch off of 7.6 on Jun 5. Please communicate the next version number
On 26/05/23 12:46, Justin Luth wrote: It would be nice to have the proper next version number (after 7.6) ready when master branches in a few weeks, and for the new release plan. Has that been finalized yet? If not, can we get the decision made before 7.6 branches off? NOW is the appropriate time for deciding if we go to 7.7, or 8.0 or 24.02. (Justin) + my option (Justin): 24.02 is fine - good fit for regular, timed releases. The next major release after LibreOffice 7.6 will be LibreOffice 24.2 (February), which will be followed by LibreOffice 24.8 (August) * Given the current level of maturity of the LibreOffice Technology development platform, it is increasingly difficult to provide a number of significant new features for each major release based on the current numbering scheme (while new features are key for media coverage, if we maintain the current numbering scheme) * By choosing a calendar based numbering scheme, we decouple the expectation of significant new features from each new major release: if we have significant new features they will be welcomed by the media, but if we don't have them the media will not be disappointed (and will write about LibreOffice) * We have already started to adapt our communication strategy to the new numbering scheme by meeting journalists independently from announcements * At LibreOffice Conference we will provide additional information about the communication strategy, and how this will help increasing the update frequency by users (which is now rather low, apart from a very small percentage of users) -- Italo Vignoli - it...@vignoli.org mobile/signal +39.348.5653829 hangout/jabber italo.vign...@gmail.com GPG Key ID - 0xAAB8D5C0 DB75 1534 3FD0 EA5F 56B5 FDA6 DE82 934C AAB8 D5C0 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Versioning scheme.
Hi Marcin, Le 27/05/2023 à 19:46, Marcin Zolisiarz a écrit : Dear All, I think it's hard to have consensus here, but we must not play with this scheme so frivolously. The next version due in early 2024 should be 8.0, and the next one on mid-2024 should be 9.0 - this way we're going to always have an even number in Winter and odd in Summer. Winter and Summer are your seasons, some may have them differently, even without any seasons :-) so this is not a good scheme for the community The 2nd digit should be used as a minor/bugfix release. How do you deal with the Fresh and Still versioning scheme? Within time we are going to reach big numbers, but our focus should be not on numbers but on fresh/still branch and that users do upgrades reguraily, report bugs if they are found and always 'in sync'. Fully agree with you here Cheers Sophie -- Sophie Gautier so...@libreoffice.org GSM: +33683901545 IRC: soph Foundation coordinator The Document Foundation -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[libreoffice-marketing] Versioning scheme.
Dear All, I think it's hard to have consensus here, but we must not play with this scheme so frivolously. The next version due in early 2024 should be 8.0, and the next one on mid-2024 should be 9.0 - this way we're going to always have an even number in Winter and odd in Summer. The 2nd digit should be used as a minor/bugfix release. Within time we are going to reach big numbers, but our focus should be not on numbers but on fresh/still branch and that users do upgrades reguraily, report bugs if they are found and always 'in sync'. Additionally, number 8 has huge marketing potential, so let's embrace it! I think Italo would not object to this. MZOL -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
