On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 5/12/15 11:28 AM, Pierros Papadeas wrote:
>
>> - Kosovo is not included in product-details as a Country. [2]
>>
>
> Wait. Why not? This makes no sense to me.
>
I filed the request for this over 3 years ago[1]. At the time, it did not
go anywhere because ISO 3166 did not have a country code for Kosovo, and
that part of product details deals with ISO codes.
This state hasn't changed, the interim code "XK" that I suggested we use
remains[2].
> At least assuming this is meant to be a "list of countries Reps might live
> in". If it's not meant to be that, then we shouldn't be using it that way.
>
> - Those individuals have been contacted in the past multiple times,
>> and they are not willing to change their profile.
>>
>
> Change it to what? If the only options we are giving them are to list
> their country as "Albania" or to list it as "Serbia", I can totally
> understand them not wanting to switch from the former to the latter.
>
> What was the actual request made here, if I might ask?
>
>
I presume, the request would be to change it to "Kosovo" (meaning the
Republic of Kosovo, as recognized by 108 UN member states[3]).
I suggest the following:
- After a few years of deliberation, let's land Kosovo with country code
"xk" in product details. It'll just be in there, no one needs to use it if
they don't want to. I am still happy to patch and land that 1-liner patch.
- We can then suggest to the Mozillians in question that they can choose
Kosovo as their country if they so desire, but they are not required to.
By the way, the other country in that bug, South Sudan, also hasn't landed.
It *does* have an ISO country code ("ss") and is recognized by 123 other
countries[4]. Happy to land that too, unless there are remaining blockers
for that to proceed.
Opinions?
Fred
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733417
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_Kosovo
[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_South_Sudan#Chronology_of_relations
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