[Foundation-l] Please REJECT the latin wikinews project. inmediatly

[Ray Saintonge]

Jesse Plamondon-Willard wrote:
> Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> I've seen a lot of people in opposition to the current policy, and not
>> too many in support of it.
>>     
> I've seen a lot of people who would prefer we make some changes to the
> policy (which is very common in any compromise), but not much
> agreement on how to change it. Are you suggesting that we stop
> processing requests for dead languages until we reach consensus on a
> policy with which to do so? That leads to the same result as applying
> the established policy.
>
>   
Am I wrong to just get more confused about this situation?  The function 
of any (sub-)committee is to recommend rather than to decide.  It can 
recommend that a project be started or not.  It can recommend criteria 
to guide such decisions.  This goes off the rails when those criteria 
are treated as set-in-stone rules.  Whether a language is dead is a fine 
criterion.  Whether a language has an ISO code is a fine criterion.  The 
presence of an adequate community for a project is a fine criterion.  
There are surely other fine criteria.  None should be absolutely 
determinative by itself.  The committee's recommendations should take 
all of these into account and not get overly upset when the community or 
the Board occasionally comes to a different conclusion.

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