I have been asked to provide my opinion by developers, who seem to think that the change of version has to be a marketing decision. As I have said quite clearly, I am pissed off by the current situation, where I am asked to take a decision and then I am blamed because I take one. I leave the decision to the community.
28 Mar 2023 08:18:13 Eyal Rozenberg <eyalr...@gmx.com>: > I respectfully disagree with Italo. > > First, about the "frame of reference". In my opinion, decisions such as major > version number bumping are not, first and foremost, marketing decisions. That > is a _consideration_, since the version number is declarative than technical. > But - such an action should be "truthful" before being "marketable". > > It is more important, in my opinion, that users and potential users receive > trustworthy signaling from the project - not just w.r.t. version numbers, but > generally - than for the media to get a gimmick for coverage. > > A second point is that bumping a version number without a major innovation > moves you a few more steps into the category of, say, Firefox and such, where > versions just increase automatically with no meaning whatsoever. Italo, you > said we are perceived as a "real innovator"; well, when a real innovator > starts having hollow version number bumping, that perception fades. > > Finally, everyone who likes the marketing potential of version 8 - great, but > - keep that benefit for when we have a significant step forward to celebrate. > Don't squander it. > > > Eyal > > PS: availability on a new platform is not a reason to bump a version number. > It's the "same" software, but built for another target, so same version as > before. IMHO anyway. > > > > On 27/03/2023 20:11, Italo Vignoli 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. >> We all know that the next version will not include any significant >> innovation which can justify the change of version, apart from the new build >> system for Windows and the availability of LibreOffice for Arm processors on >> Windows (which has not been announced). >> Playing with the number 8, which can be rotated 90° to become the "infinite" >> symbol, we can frame the next version as LibreOffice for an infinite number >> of users, as we cover all hardware platforms and all operating systems for >> personal productivity. >> This is my opinion. If the community wants to stick with 7.6, I won't >> insist. I have received enough insults both public and private for the >> marketing plan, and I am still receiving them from a few people, that I am >> not willing to enter into that process again (even if the decision on the >> "community" tag has not been mine, but it looks like people have a very >> short memory). >> Looking forward to your thoughts. > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+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/design/ > Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
