Sean Whitton writes ("[DRAFT] Bits from the Policy Team"):
> I'm thinking of sending out the following to d-d-a; reviews welcome.
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> Thanks to work by Hideki Yamane <henrich>, Ian Jackson <iwj> and myself,I don't feel the need to be credited, TBH, but if you do want to credit me by some kind of username/nickname, please credit `Diziet' or nothing. (`(Diziet)' or some other syntax?) I don't much use my debian.org username. > While those working on Debian packages have to be able to use English, > it relieves some cognitive load if contributors are able to read the > Debian Policy Manual in their native language. I think you are understating the usefulness of this for downstreams such as individual users, derivatives, and so on. (`on Debian packages' might mean within-Debian or in-Debian-format.) Translating Policy can make downstream work much easier. Ian.
