Locale bringup and barriers for entry

[Luke Dashjr via CLDR-Users]

It's been a while since I tried, but I didn't see any possible way to define a 
locale's number system (eg, octal or tonal instead of decimal).

On Saturday 22 September 2018 00:34:27 Steven R. Loomis via CLDR-Users wrote:
> Hello, and welcome to the new cldr-users members.
>
> For discussion:
>
> At the IUC conference last week, a few of us discussed around lunch some
> issues around getting new locales into CLDR, and barriers to entry.
>
> Barriers:
> - we discussed that it could be confusing or difficult to collect all of
> the data needed for a minimal locale:
> http://cldr.unicode.org/index/cldr-spec/minimaldata - especially
> pluralization data
> - what about fonts? keyboards?
> - what are the best ways to coordinate efforts between the language users
> and different technical experts?
>
> Ideas:
> - a web app to take in new locale data?
> - a web app to debug/explore plurals?
> - allowing some locales to 'get started' without plural rules?
>
> Links for discussion:
> - Elnaz and Steven's prez from (last) Monday: https://goo.gl/sN7biw
> - My "full stack" blog post:
> https://srl295.github.io/2017/06/06/full-stack-enablement/