Re: Resignation

[Eddy Petrisor <eddyp-guest@userbeam.de>]

Denis Barbier wrote:

> On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 10:29:52PM +0800, Wang WenRui wrote:
>  
>
> > Around 08 o'clock on 05 May, Steve Langasek wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 01:57:21PM +0200, Hugo Wau wrote:
> > > The name people are asking to have listed in the Debian installer is
> > >      
> > Just *some* people do. Some of these people started a large thread in
> > debian-devel, debian-boot and debian-users here several weeks ago, IIRC.
> >    
> >
> > > "Taiwan".  Please explain how this is a politically-charged name.
> > >      
> > The 2nd screen of d-i:
> >
> > 	/---------------------[Choose *country*]-----------------\
> > 	| Choose your country:                                   |
> > 	|                                                        |
> > 	|  China                                                 |
> > 	|  Hong Kong                                             |
> > 	|  Taiwan                                                |
> > 	|                                                        |
> > 	|                                                        |
> > 	\_______________________________________________________/
> >    
>
> This is incredibly unfair, you are well aware
>  http://lists.debian.org/debian-chinese-gb/2004/03/msg00102.html
> that this has been partly fixed in beta4, question now looks like
>
>   /-----------------------[Choose country]---------------------\
>   | Based on your language, you are probably in one of these   |
>   | countries, territories or areas of particular geopolitical |
>   | interest.  If you are elsewhere, choose "other".           |
>   |                                                            |
>   | Choose your country, territory or area:                    |
>   |  China                                                     |
>   |  Hong Kong                                                 |
>   |  Taiwan                                                    |
>   |  other                                                     |
>   \____________________________________________________________/
>
> As I disagree with Christian, I created a test branch for countrychooser
>   svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/d-i/people/barbier/countrychooser
>   svn://svn.debian.org/d-i/people/barbier/countrychooser
> to get rid of remaining "choose country" short forms and requested for
> comments
>   http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/05/msg00205.html
> to see if this version was less controversial.  I am still waiting for
> comments.
>
> Denis
>  

Just say "choose location" and get over with it...

Don't use iso-s, just the short names...
Isn't there _any_ standard that satisfies this request?

I say we should go for the short names on the maps... is _less_ likely 
to have any conflict with those.
And we even get rid of the political charge as nobody can acuse us of 
saying that X is a country,
teritory, an independent teritory, or whatever! Is just a location !! 
That's the beauty of it ;) !


Eddy