Hello,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)...
Using LO 8 would attract some light of media for some time ok but they'll conclude quite quickly the same as you've just said:
"no significant innovation which can justify the change of
version" so we would have just obeyed to marketing rules for them.
IMHO, we should use 7.6 for the next major release or if marketing absolutely wants media to talk about LO, we may also partly use "Ubuntu" style:
LibreOffice <2 last digits of the year>.<the month
number with 2 digits>.<minor version>
=> so 7.6.0 would be 23.05.0 (since a major version is about
every 6 months and 7.5.0 has been released in November 2022).
At least, it's clear and predictable, except after 2099 but it lets us a bit of time to prepare oneself to the 4 digits year :-)
Anyway, don't bother too much, there'll always be people complaining and people ok with the decision. The pb is that even if complaining people corresponds to 1%, you'll hear about them more than the OK people.
Julien
