Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi,
The current policy is really objective; a request for a project will be
honoured when it complies with a set of prerequisites.
- is the language recognised as a language in the ISO-639-3
- is the language sufficiently unique
- is there a sufficiently large corpus in the incubator
- is there a community of a sufficient size so that we can trust the
community to do well
- are the requirements for localisation met
Just to be clear, I think what you want to really say is that the
criteria are mechanically applied. Of course the choice of
criteria is a separate question and may or may not be
objective. Even a completely mechanically applied set of
criteria can (at least arguendo) be a subjective choice
dependant on ideological biases even of very drastic kinds.
Just because the rules are the same for all, doesn't mean the
rules aren't biased.
I am not making any more pointed comment on the policy as
such, just clarifying the logical structure in the aid of further
discussion.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen