Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762873AbXFJTDu (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:03:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756168AbXFJTDn (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:03:43 -0400 Received: from pasmtpb.tele.dk ([80.160.77.98]:51782 "EHLO pasmtpB.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756319AbXFJTDm (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:03:42 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:04:44 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Greg KH , Jesper Juhl , Tsugikazu Shibata , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, m-ikeda@ds.jp.nec.com, tlktp-general@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: kconfig .po files in kernel tree? [Was: Documentation/HOWTO translated into Japanese] Message-ID: <20070610190444.GA29599@uranus.ravnborg.org> 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 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1526 Lines: 41 On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 08:35:03PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> 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 Like with translated doc, they might get out of date easily. The difference here is that with .po files we have tools to report the actual translation status. And having the .po files included in the source makes it much easier to use the latest versions. The Linux Kernel Translation Project http://tlktp.sourceforge.net/ have nice statisitcs for the different translations. Italian is 100% followed by Hungarian with almost 70%. We have a number of dedicated people, so why not make the works available to more users by including it in the kernel. I trust the tlktp people enough that we will not see patches for the language with less than ~5% translated strings. I would assume that Japanese soon get higher btw - there is quite a number of people listed as translators. Sam - 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/