Re: NM who wants to work on translations
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:21:28PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> >
> > The question is also whether he should be entitled to vote. Developership
> > is not just about giving access to resources you know.
> >
>
> Anyone who is continuing to make a reasonable contribution to debian
> should be able vote and be considered part of the team.
>
> Social Contract. "4.Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software"
>
> Translators are making the distribution available to more users (non
> english speakers), it seems to me that it would be an ongoing job that
> would require persistent effort to be successfull.
>
> Debian is so much more than just packaging.
Hear, hear. Same goes for policy, as well.
There was a thread a while ago about someone who wanted to join and be a policy guy; the response was more or less, no, you can do policy from outside Debian. But, what use is being in policy when you can't even *vote*?
Let the man in. (I hope it's a man, I didn't read the original, mutt over a slow SSH is painful).
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