On May 23, 2015 11:40:36 PM GMT+03:00, Mike Hoye <[email protected]> wrote: >- 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.
I can think of a technical reason. Having the country field as a free text removes any location feature we currently have and it's based on the assumption of a country being a predefined list (Find Mozillians on a specific country, KPI metrics per country, etc). So naming the field "Country or Region" may resolve some issues, but the list should be a predefined one. And since this is not about the Reps portal per se, whatever policy we conclude to choose, it should be reflected on the upstream project [1]. [1] https://github.com/mozilla/django-product-details -- ~nikos _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
