[libreoffice-marketing] Development will branch off of 7.6 on Jun 5. Please communicate the next version number

[Italo Vignoli]

On 30/05/23 10:19, Stephan Bergmann wrote:

> * How does the new versioning scheme fit with the current setup of 
> having two parallel streams of "fresh" (currently LO 7.5.3) and "still" 
> (currently LO 7.4.7) versions?

We will announce the change explaining in detail what will happen in the 
interim period (i.e. when we will have the 2024.2 and the 7.6 releases). 
By the way, I think that the distinction between "fresh" and "still" is 
now obsolete and can be deprecated (as it was created when LibreOffice 
was undergoing code cleaning and refactoring, and as such was not as 
stable as today). We have dropped that distinction since LibreOffice 7.0 
when we have announced new major and minor releases, and is now time to 
position the two versions in relation to users and not to LibreOffice 
(technology savvy vs normal users).

> * Some places in the code rely on version numbers being strictly 
> monotonically increasing based on a lexicographical ordering of their 
> dotted version number segments.  (For example, 7.4.6 < 7.4.7 < 7.5.3 < 
> 8.0.)  Switching to a 24.2/24.8/... versioning scheme would initially 
> fit that requirement (as 7.6 < 24.2).  But the two-digit year component 
> of that scheme has the disturbing (to pedants, at least) issue of 
> wrap-around.  Can we instead use a full-year versioning scheme, 
> 2024.2/2024.8/...?

No problem for 2024.2 and 2024.8, of course.
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