Re: [Draft] GR: diversity statement for the Debian Project

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org>, 2012-05-03, 18:09:
> > > Q: What will be the procedure for maintaining/updating the statement, 
> > > once voted?
> > > A: The gist of the statement will be fixed by the GR. But in order to 
> > > avoid needing a vote for every minor tweak, language improvements can 
> > > be applied by the -www team as for other parts of www.d.o and more 
> > > substantial changes, that do not change the spirit, can be discussed 
> > > on -project.
> > I'm not sure we want "editorial changes".
> Well, if you think the translations are prone to change the meaning of 
> the text, I think we have two options: Either to collect all possible 
> translations and submit them all together to a GR,

This would be a great way to reject the proposal: hopefully nobody sane 
would vote for a position statement that he cannot understand. 
Therefore, I second this idea! ;>

> or include in all translations that the authoritative copy is the 
> English one.
>
> How are our foundational documents (DFSG, SC) handled in this regard?
> I don't think we had to bless every translation...

I hope nobody thinks that translations (especially the Polish ones!) of 
the foundations documents are in any way binding.

Anyhow, I didn't realize that Francesca was talking about translations. 
Well, did she?

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Jakub Wilk