From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.2 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED, SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Received: from sourceware.org (server1.sourceware.org [209.132.180.131]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5585B1F97E for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2018 23:20:42 +0000 (UTC) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:content-type; q=dns; s=default; b=oDkEkGr Y+VWXVtgq3GbJ6+BbSvTS1axeWWHL+pTnh0gaVv1qJfNQycZzJftmHB3NBmP3BYl 25MWgnMfWfrMvqd0E9XJXbkF+FIkaTjxGPqA2WT5FqYbMGSsyrZHEYpe/+r2mM1M UfGKwERdmYVf4ULnKuGmlFNaQkYG5rbBtn2I= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:content-type; s=default; bh=CzrJiG3EzoMHx v6XZjOoM27WL2c=; b=jSsvEnrkrz4HFe6dxgliMhGHlEdNLtOQ0w0jX5jhZj/OV XFi3DncYtReLgjvcUaZ5OmtYR1QlLYVXPiBQGzlSMOBpTDJ/pyuYw+CVt+8O978v UD8lr/pWaOg9SVW7WzNTPBQ20N7twlK2D3KOB7batExeW1rZQCw5ebKS3Yxbwg= Received: (qmail 51077 invoked by alias); 8 Oct 2018 23:20:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 51068 invoked by uid 89); 8 Oct 2018 23:20:39 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-HELO: mailbackend.panix.com MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <41532e13-a63d-5df1-ab37-05eb4d6c8d0a@kobylkin.com> <20180412224352.GB2911@altlinux.org> <16e785f3-2e9f-ceb2-698f-dc33c91a5d5e@kobylkin.com> <20181003091949.GA21486@rap.rap.dk> <21d872b2-613e-d1f5-26c0-baa4b5721df9@kobylkin.com> <1485772360.805333.1538731225156@poczta.nazwa.pl> <19e29568-e710-535f-4f90-98dbcec930ed@kobylkin.com> <1028447684.826961.1539036295224@poczta.nazwa.pl> In-Reply-To: <1028447684.826961.1539036295224@poczta.nazwa.pl> From: Zack Weinberg Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 19:20:23 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] Locales: Cyrillic -> ASCII transliteration table [BZ #2872] re-submission for 2.29 To: Rafal Luzynski , GNU C Library Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 6:05 PM Rafal Luzynski wrote: > The problem is that we don't have a separate maintainer for each locale, > we have only 2 maintainers for about 200 locales and we must represent > them all. Sometimes a locale may happen to be our own native locale or > of someone in this list, or it may be a locale which we accidentally can > speak as a foreign language, or we may have friends who can speak it. > Or it may be totally unknown and we still must somehow handle it. I just want to mention that this is also why most of the non-locale maintainers tend to stay out of threads about locales. We know we're even less expert on these issues than you are, and I think as a general rule you should be assuming that the community is OK with what you're doing unless someone speaks up to object. zw