On 2015-05-23 2:04 PM, Panos Astithas wrote:
I can understand either using ISO verbatim or using a free-form field
labeled "Country or Region", because in both cases we can legitimately
say in case of complaints "it's not our fault", but devising our own
special set of rules sounds like asking for trouble.
Here's Wikipedia's list of territorial disputes; there are dozens of
them. We have offices or community groups in several of them,
occasionally on both sides.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_territorial_disputes
I've seen three general proposals in this thread, saying we can:
- Defer to the ISO spec. We wash our hands of the matter, in other
words. This sends a very clear message to our community.
- Use the ISO spec plus a bunch of extra rules we make up. Charitably, I
will call this a very bad idea. We should absolutely not do this.
- Make it a freeform text field and trust our people to exercise their
best judgement as members of the Mozilla community.
I think we would need a _spectacular_ reason to defer to a specification
instead of respecting our community members' decisions about how to tell
their own stories, and there isn't a reason like that in this thread.
- mhoye
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