bump.....? any update on this? Should we move forward with an official policy proposed here?
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Gervase Markham <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
