[libreoffice-marketing] "Early adopter" status on official download page high profile problem

Hi!

Recently, version 7.6 EOLed; at that point, it was removed from official download page [1], and 
since version 2.8 hasn't been released yet [2], the download page only lists version 24.2.5 
currently as the primary download offer. So far, I don't see a major problem; the related but 
different topic of possibly postponing EOL till the release of the next branch is not discussed 
here.

In the current situation, 24.2.5 is advertised on the download page as "If you're a technology 
enthusiast, early adopter or power user, this version is for you!", the same as previous bugfix 
releases of the same branch. And here is the problem. The "early adopter" release it the only one 
offered to users visiting LibreOffice site. This created FUD, created by ourselves. There are 
questions like [3], [4]; there appear advises confusingly suggesting that 24.2.4 may be preferred 
over 24.2.5 [5]. Even the release announcement of 24.2.5 [6] has "For users who don’t need the 
latest features and prefer a version that has undergone more testing and bug fixing, The Document 
Foundation maintains a version with some months of back-ported fixes" statement, without a direct 
reference to it. But the previous announcement [7] had "The current release is LibreOffice 7.6.7 
Community, but it will soon be replaced exactly by LibreOffice 24.2.4 when the new major release 
LibreOffice 24.8 becomes available" statement, implying that 24.2.4 was meant to obtain "more 
tested" status.

Note that "more tested" is not simply "more tested than the other offering on this download page", 
but - more importantly - results in a different target audience. And we must make sure, that at the 
point when there is no second offering, our single offering has reached the point of maturity to 
target those who need stability (note that practically, 24.2.5 is already there), and that 
_it_is_marked_as_such_officially_ - both in release announcement, and on download page.

[1] https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/
[2] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan/24.8
[3] 
https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/is-libreoffice-only-for-technology-enthusiasts-early-adopters-power-users-and-business-users/108280
[4] https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/telechargement-de-libreoffice-version-stable/108157
[5] https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/header-vanishes/108305/2
[6] https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/07/11/libreoffice-24-2-5/
[7] https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/06/06/libreoffice-24-2-4/

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Best regards,
Mike Kaganski

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