On 23/05/15 21:40, Mike Hoye wrote: > - Defer to the ISO spec. We wash our hands of the matter, in other > words. This sends a very clear message to our community.
That's what we do now, right? This is the option with the disadvantage that residents of Kosovo, if required to pick a country, must pick either Serbia or Albania? > - 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. Would you put the FreeBSD policy into this category? http://www.freebsd.org/internal/i18n.html You may say there's a slippery slope, but if you start from the ISO spec, changing "Taiwan, Province of China" to simply "Taiwan" seems like an obvious and widely-adopted improvement, which removes offence from one set of people and (combined with a "Country or Region" label) does not offend anyone else. Is it really beyond our capabilities to figure out which rules fall into the category of "clear improvement" and which do not? > - Make it a freeform text field and trust our people to exercise their > best judgement as members of the Mozilla community. (For completeness: I proposed a way to do this that wouldn't entirely break geographic search.) Gerv _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
