[Problem] Contributions policy is silent on the issue of language

[chennes]

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Version

0.21 (Development)

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Problem description

As pointed out by @FlachyJoe in PR #7883, although our "unofficial" policy is that contributions are in English, our actual CONTRIBUTING.md file does not spell this out. Since this is an international project with many non-native-English speakers (including most Maintainers!) it may be worthwhile to be more explicit about our expectations.

It is my understanding that the current operating procedure is:

1. All source code contributions (including comments) must be in English: either British or American spellings are acceptable.
2. git commit messages must be in English.
3. Pull Requests should be submitted in English.
4. Machine-generated translations are acceptable in all cases.
5. Grammatical correctness is not considered when evaluating the code contribution, but clarifications may be requested by Maintainers to avoid possible confusion in some cases.

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