On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Gervase Markham <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14/05/15 07:48, Kan-Ru Chen (陳侃如) wrote: >> The ISO-3166 standard is controversial. It only presents the member >> states' view. Many organizations have already changed to use regions >> instead of countries because of this issue. See >> http://iso3166.github.io/ for some of them. > > That page lists one more example of a project which has taken my > proposed "Country or Region" approach - FreeBSD. > > Gerv >
Agreed. The Mozilla Project should just draft a formal policy like what FreeBSD did, and stay apolitical by keeping a reasonable distance from the ISO-3166 list. For years I have seen patches and website projects accidentally go live without annotating the list nor understanding the problem. There should be a stakeholder who could stand up and fix this once and for all. With a policy there will be a guideline to follow, and we can simply identify any future instances as human error, instead of engaging in debate like this thread again and again. There are more productive things to do for the project. Simply put, the project cannot afford any more feeling of resentment or alienation. We won't go afar with dysfunction like this. Thanks, Tim _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
