-to change their debian-private list subscription, their personal
-information, to mark themselves on vacation, etc.
-For more information on keeping your entry the developer database
-up-to-date, please see <ref id="user-maint">.
+to change various information about themselves, such as:
+<list>
+ <item>forwarding address for your debian.org email
+ <item>subscription to debian-private
+ <item>whether you are on vacation
+ <item>personal information such as your address, country,
+ the latitude and longitude of the place where you live
+ for use in <url name="the world map of Debian developers"
+ id="&url-worldmap;">, phone and fax numbers, IRC nickname
+ and web page
+ <item>password and preferred shell on Debian Project machines
+</list>
+ <p>
+Most of the information is not accessible to the public, naturally.
+For more information please read the online documentation that you can find
+at <url id="&url-debian-db-doc;">.