rn-121: include interview with Peter Krefting

Author: sivaraam

rev_news/drafts/edition-121.md

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-## Developer Spotlight:
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+## Developer Spotlight: Peter Krefting
+
+* **Who are you and what do you do?**
+
+  My name is Peter Krefting and I am a software engineer. Hailing from Sweden,
+  I moved to Norway for my first job, at Opera Software, mostly working on
+  internals such as Unicode support and internal libraries. I ended up staying
+  in Norway and am currently working for a small company providing monitoring
+  equipment for digital TV.
+
+* **What are you doing on the Git project these days, and why?**
+
+  My answer to these two are the same, I am the maintainer of the
+  [Swedish translation of Git](https://github.com/git-l10n/git-po/blob/master/po/sv.po).
+  I like having software running in my own language, and sometimes
+  you have to take matters in your own hands.
+
+* **If you could get a team of expert developers to work full time on
+  something in Git for a full year, what would it be?**
+
+  I think [`git gui`](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-gui) and
+  [gitk](https://git-scm.com/docs/gitk) could need some extra love,
+  these are my daily drivers, in addition to the command line.
+
+* **Is there something that developers could do to ease the life of
+  translators?**
+
+  My main gripe is using library function names as verbs,
+  like "cannot fsync". That's hard to read even in the original
+  language, even for a C developer like myself.
+
+* **What is your favorite Git-related tool/library, outside of
+  Git itself?**
+
+  I like simple and clean interfaces, so using [cgit](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Cgit)
+  to visualize history on a web server is very nice.
+
+* **What is your toolbox for interacting with the mailing list and for
+  development of Git?**
+
+  I mostly just read the mailing list, and only a small percentage of the
+  posts to it; the localization is handled through [GitHub pull requests](https://github.com/git-l10n/git-po/pulls?q=is%3Apr),
+  so that's where that work happens. The few patches I have sent to the
+  mailing list have been very manual, using `git format-patch` and
+  the [Alpine mail client](https://alpineapp.email/).
+
+* **What is your advice for people who want to start Git development?
+  Where and how should they start?**
+
+  Find some small part you want to improve, and work on that. Git is a
+  fairly complex piece of software, implemented in several different
+  languages, making it hard to get an overview. I most definitely do not,
+  even if I have read (and translated) most of the user-visible strings.
+
 
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