Look, at a certain level there's some truth to it. We certainly haven't made the case here on whether or not this is actually in Bulgarian, after all.
This is a very unusual case in that we might well have seen this project as closable in the first place. Instead, we gave a group of contributors time to revive the project. We asked only that (1) they put a reasonable community in
place to support the project going forward, and (2) they remove questionable content. Really, we've only been evaluating this situation on whether those two requirements were meant.
1. Three regular contributors is typically enough for a brand new project. But both the project and the contributors here have some history problems, and we didn't really even have three regular contributors (only two) until about
two months ago, when it started to become clear that we might really close the project. If we were deciding to approve this project from scratch, this would perhaps be just barely enough activity to say yes--but only barely.
2. As to the part about critiquing how that RfD went down, it ties to the request to remove questionable content. I can only say that this project revival was on our watch, and we are entitled to make sure that the revival was done
responsibly. We thought it wasn't. And to say that three users, one of whom has a conflict-of-interest, have a right to exclude other opinions from the discussion and decision, seems inappropriate.
My personal opinion is that LangCom bent over backwards over the course of a full year to allow the process to proceed fairly. We think we've done so. If the Board doesn't agree, that's the Board's prerogative. And we think project
closure on this basis is within our remit. But if it's not, we need to rewrite the closing project policy to narrow the scope for project closures. And that will be someone else's job; I will have had enough.
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