[Mageia-discuss] IRC community channels - need a ruling from the board

[Marc Paré]

Le 2010-10-04 12:40, Remco Rijnders a écrit :
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 06:33:31PM +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
>> 2010/10/4 Oliver Burger<oliver.bgr at googlemail.com>:
>>>
>>> <OT>I'm quite sure the German Postal Services (we don't have a Federal service
>>> anymore, it's been privatized) have some guidlines as well and I'm quite sure
>>> most companies, who do their mail using some programm or other follow those
>>> guidlines as well.
>>
>> Yes, there are guidelines, German Postal Service uses the codes
>> similar to international license plates for cars. Like "I" for Italy,
>> "F" for France, "D" for Germany, etc.
>> Postal codes are not standardized, each country uses their own system.
>
> <OT>  And this actually means that even sending mail out of country without
> putting any sort of country designation on the envelope or package might
> work! (Or at least it used to when postal workers still had a decent pay
> and took pride in their work).

<OT> Yup a little off topic but still a bit informational on Mageia 
naming conventions.

I have to admit that I find it funny that the OpenOffice.or group and 
many of us were appalled when countries and states did not adopt the ISO 
OASIS document formats. Many of us condemned others for not accepting 
these international ISO document formats. It took a lot of effort to 
come up with these standards along with a lot of debating.

Yet, in Mageia's case, where ISO country and language formats could have 
been applied for its internal standard naming convention, the window of 
opportunity for the ISO-format adoption may have been lost.

As it was pointed out earlier, it may be sadly too late to re-organise, 
and the present standard in use (that of common practice) for the Mageia 
group will probably remain.

I guess we will hear the decision from the Mageia "higher-ups" 
eventually on this count.

BTW ... did you know that there is an ISO standard for the date format? 
Hey, but that's could be for another discussion. LOL

Marc