Re: [libreoffice-marketing] MARKETING PLAN: Some Proposals

Hi Marina, everyone,


On 11/11/2020 11.09, Marina Latini wrote:> PERSONAL: always with this
target-origin approach, I'm missing the
> origin here. Which tag should be used for example by the Limux project
> or by SUSE or by all the others that are investing in our project with a
> contract with one of the ecosystem companies for fixing specific issues
> without using their LTS branded version? Why we should ask to these
> contributors to use a personal tag giving the wrong impression to their
> users that the software is for "for personal use only" and they are the
> "bad folks" not contributing to our open source project in the proper way?

I completely agree with this and pretty much everything you wrote. :)

> ROLLING/TUMBLEWEED: I can be biased here as openSUSE community member
> but "rolling" is not only something unstable. ;)
> Look for example at openSUSE Tumbleweed. The distro is a rolling one, in
> constant evolution, it's true, you can get all the updated software
> available from upstream projects and the distro has in any case a really
> extensive quality work done by SUSE, its partners and by the openSUSE
> community. At the end, this tumbleweed concept is not like using a
> master version of LibreOffice but is closer to chose fresh instead of
> still. ;)
> The concept of rolling is something that I really like. it's a shared
> effort from all the contributors (volunteers, ecosystem and investors)
> to deliver something that works as expected without providing a long
> term support version. With this rolling concept I can't see a negative
> outcome also for public administrations like Munich or companies like
> SUSE supporting our project in a different way. I like "tumbleweed" more
> than rolling to be honest but if this concept will be selected we can
> try to find a more effective and visual word too.

A tag in that direction ("something that works as expected without
providing a long term support version") sounds good to me.

From my personal understanding, "rolling" isn't what I'd use to describe
the LibreOffice release process (where there is a release schedule in
advance and features/bugfixes/bugs always enter with a distinct new
release, not "at any unknown point in time", as can happen for rolling
releases like OpenSUSE Tumbleweed or Debian unstable where new packages
can enter at any point in time).

IMHO, "Semi-annual Edition" would match our release model more
precisely, since we have two new major releases every year, and it would
make clear that whoever uses these versions should be prepared to
upgrade to the next version every 6 months (as opposed to LTS versions).
> CREATIVE: I feel this proposal closer to what I wrote for
> ROLLING/TUMBLEWEED and indeed, I like it. :)

"Creative" sounds good, but at least from my personal user perspective,
I'd probably wonder at first whether "Creative Edition" is the right one
for me, since I don't feel that what I'm usually doing with LibreOffice
is particularly creative (like writing some official letters from time
to time or do some calculations in a spreadsheet). :)

Michael

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