@nick@norden.social @libreoffice @nick@hhmx.de It also doesn't say anything about the degree of change I can expect as a user. If I upgrade from, say, 7.1 to 9.3, I know I can expect some fairly large changes. If I upgrade from 23.11 to 24.1 in a date-based versioning scheme? No idea. Maybe 23.11 was a maintenance release only fixing a security issue in 22.7, and 24.1 is a new major release?
Date-based version numbers might work for collections of software. For a single product, though, it quickly becomes confusing.