no Ryo, it is not so. It was not very well explained, but you need to be bureaucrat to make people sysop, and a bureaucrat is a sysop which needs a special status given by a developer.
I did understand that. But I'm also _certain_ at some point I _did_ access the 'make sysop' page. IT has a plain text box to enter the user's name :)
I suggest you (I think Shai was interested as well) ask a developper to make you bureaucrat on fr, so we do not have to bug a developper any more :-)
I have no objection to being bureaucrat - but maybe we should ask the opinion of other french contributors.
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