I think having high-quality documentation in one language would be a huge win. That is lots of effort can be spent improving, expanding, and editing existing

I think having high-quality documentation in one language would be a huge win. That is lots of effort can be spent improving, expanding, and editing existing documentation. English is a prerequisite for the wider Debian community, and it is the most widely spoken language in the world says Wikipedia¹ English 1.5 billion Mandarin. 1.1 billion Hindi 0.7 billion Spanish. 0.6 billion I wonder how real that number is for English. In a lot of nations, people are taught English in school officially, and it is true but with very poor results. (I was taught French in school and that had catastrophically bad results) When it comes to Mandarin Chinese, I wonder if the wider community has better mastery of it compared to English or if its the same or if it is much worse. When it comes to the tools used for communication, having a strong standard is again beneficial. What every 10 years? Every 5 years? There is a new and hip platform that "everyone" uses. If you can't expect younger people joining to adapt some to the wider community, then you will need a lot of difficulty to handle bridges that will cause all manner of problems. Or should "adult" community members have to adopt whatever "everyone" is using every 5 years? IRC has all sorts of different clients, in all sorts of different platforms. Becoming a developer or maintainer for Debian will involve learning to use a lot of different tools that are needed to perform the tasks involved. Surely most of those tools don't change around every year? ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_num...