Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759809AbXFJSfT (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:35:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754983AbXFJSfF (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:35:05 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:3055 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754953AbXFJSfE (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:35:04 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:35:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Sam Ravnborg cc: Greg KH , Jesper Juhl , Tsugikazu Shibata , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, m-ikeda@ds.jp.nec.com Subject: Re: kconfig .po files in kernel tree? [Was: Documentation/HOWTO translated into Japanese] In-Reply-To: <20070610175228.GA28947@uranus.ravnborg.org> Message-ID: References: <20070610.204845.115909592.tshibata@ab.jp.nec.com> <9a8748490706100524o2dff1954ja7406f9303d8499f@mail.gmail.com> <20070610162221.GA12830@suse.de> <20070610175228.GA28947@uranus.ravnborg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1411 Lines: 34 On Jun 10 2007 19:52, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >> > Since the common language of most kernel contributors is english I >> > personally feel that we should stick to just that one language in the >> > tree and then perhaps keep translations on a website somewhere. So the >> > authoritative docs stay in the tree, in english, so that as many >> > contributors as possible can read and update them. It would then be a >> > seperate project to generate translations and keep them updated >> > according to what's in the tree. Perhaps we could get the kernel.org >> > people to create an official space for that and then place a pointer >> > to that site in Documentation/ somewhere. >> >> No, I think the translated files should be in the tree proper, we have >> the space :) > >We once discussed about .po files for kconfig and back then >the conclusion was not to keep them in the kernel tree. > >I advocated that they should stay out back then. >But on the other hand I do not see it causing much troubles >having scripts/kconfig/po/da.po etc araound. > >Any opinion about the .po files? Like with translated doc, they might get out of date easily. Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/