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 <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. > > 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. > -- > Italo Vignoli - LibreOffice Marketing & PR > mobile/signal +39.348.5653829 - email it...@libreoffice.org > 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: 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