I suggest we remove this paragraph as it's not true. A DD *is*
generally someone with a key in the keyring, so an official member
of the project. The point this is trying to make is much better made
in the following paragraph, which was contradictory before my
patch.
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different steps of the process, and how to track the process of their ongoing
application.</p>
-<p>(<em>Note:</em> the <q>developer</q> in DD basically means <q>someone
-involved with improving Debian in some way</q>. This might mean package
-maintainer, translator, documentation writer, website maintainer, etc.)</p>
-
<p>The first important point to make is that you do <em>not</em> need to be an
official Debian developer in order to help improving Debian. In fact, you should
already have a track record of earlier contributions to Debian before you apply for
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