Irvin, I think it might help move this forward if someone started a proposal doc somewhere. Otherwise we won't get out of the debate stage. What you just said seems like a good start for one. It can also capture the questions we need to answer before deciding on a policy.
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Irvin Chen <[email protected]> wrote: > Gijs, > > We have 2 solution besides leave the issue raise again and again, > > First, we use the regionName list and extend it to as complete as we need. > Second, we take GENC/ISO 3166 as base and we still need to set a procedure > for our worldwide communities able to patch the list. > > Which ever we choose, we both need to set a i18n policy and make > acknowledge to all product manager follow the list to prevent further > problem and make our user happy and not feel offended. > > Mozilla should be the best model of the OSS projects on i18n. We do well > respect to our user worldwide since 2002. And now we fall behind some other > projects but we can catch up. > > > > Gijs Kruitbosch > [email protected]>於 2015年6月9日 週二，下午8:17寫道： > > On 09/06/2015 12:28, Irvin Chen wrote: > > > The list*1 had been inside Firefox for decades in > > > preference/content/language setting *2, > > > > Languages and countries/regions are not the same thing. The list in the > > preferences has language names, and only uses the regionNames list for > > identifying distinctions in language based on the region where that > > language is spoken (en-US vs. en-GB being a well-known example). > > > > The purpose seems different enough, and the number of regions we > > actually use and display small enough, that it doesn't seem like a good > > candidate for use for the projects identified upthread. > > > > ~ Gijs > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
