Hi, From: Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: "family name, personal name" in devel/people Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 10:33:58 +0100
> % grep-available -F Maintainer Shuzo -s Maintainer | sort -u > Maintainer: HATTA Shuzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Maintainer: Hatta Shuzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > % grep-available -F Maintainer Yuuma -s Maintainer | sort -u > Maintainer: Oohara Yuuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Perhaps one of you could politely inform these two developers that they > might get the westerners to read their name right if they changed the > ordering? :) Well, I don't want to do this. I want nobody to do this. It is not a very good idea that non-westerners have to follow the customs of westerners but westerners don't need to follow that of non-westerners. Non-westerners already suffer from paying cost to learn many customs of westerners when we want to do something in international societies, and I want to reduce the load if possible. I think I can ask them to write family name in uppercase, it is the maximum which I can ask them. I don't know they will accept even this idea. Please note that this *is* what I recently mentioned as a "10-year flamewar" and I *never* want to join it, and even asking writing familyname in uppercase might arouse the flamewar. (If I would ask to change name order, I would certainly stimulate the core part of flamewar and Japanese members of Debian might drop their activity as developers.) --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/
