FWIW I think your proposal is more practical than a free form field.
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 2:52 AM, Mike Connor <[email protected]> wrote: > So, I'm a little lost on how this concept solves the original problem > here. A free-form field means these users could continue to identify as a > part of Albania. Isn't that more divisive and controversial than allowing > Kosovo into the list? I assume it's long-settled that we won't use ISO's > short name for Taiwan? > > The only advantage I see is that we can point things elsewhere, potentially > at the expense of effectiveness (see comments about the problems with the > old free form entry). > > -- Mike > > On 25 May 2015 at 16:31, Eric Rescorla <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > On 5/25/15 11:43 AM, Eric Rescorla wrote: >> > >> >> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Mike Connor <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> The origin of this thread was from a legacy entry that mis-identified >> >>> Kosovo as a part of Albania. I don't think that passes any reasonable >> >>> sniff test. >> >>> >> >> >> >> And yet people clearly want to not change it. >> >> >> > >> > That's because the only other remotely sensible choice we gave them is to >> > change to identifying Kosovo as a part of Serbia. If we gave them the >> > option of identifying Kosovo as part of neither, and _then_ they >> continued >> > to identify as part of Albania, then we could have a discussion about how >> > to handle that. But that's not the situation we're in right now. Given >> > the situation we _are_ in, I can totally understand the reluctance to >> > change. All this has been mentioned in this thread before, so bringing >> up >> > the "but they don't want to change" thing in this context is odd. >> > >> >> Sorry, it was like 50 messages back and I missed it when I skimmed to catch >> up with the thread. With that said, I don't think it's at all hard to >> anticipate that we will run into hard cases. >> >> >> >> >> > Anyway, it seems to me like we have a proposal on the table (Ehsan's) >> that >> > you're happy with. For the record, I'm happy with it too. >> >> >> Yes, I can live with it. >> >> -Ekr >> _______________________________________________ >> governance mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance >> > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
