Joey Hess and I have discussed several times what to do with appendix D.3 of Sarge's Installation Guide. Our view is that it would be best to drop it. The reasons are: - the major contributors and history of the manual are already mentioned in D.4; - the lists as they currently are, are ridiculously long and ugly; - it is not really fair to give so much credit to contributers to the manual and none at all to the people who have worked on the installer itself; - for a lot of the translators that are mentioned it is unknown when or how much they contributed to the manual (a lot of them probably only translated previous versions); the list is almost impossible to maintain. Joey has mentioned an idea to set up a page on the d-i website instead where contributers (both to the installer and manual) can be listed. Also, I am thinking of adding a single paragraph where translators can maintain their own list of (primary) translators in D.4, for their own language only! I would advise translation teams to just mention major the coordinator and maybe contributors in that paragraph and thank everybody else in a phrase like "all translators and reviewers from the translation team for <your language> at <your l10n mailinglist>". Your comments to this proposal are welcome. If no very convincing arguments against it are offered, I intend to implement this next week. Cheers, FJP
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