Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762700AbXFKHYW (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:24:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753836AbXFKHYP (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:24:15 -0400 Received: from enyo.dsw2k3.info ([195.71.86.239]:53939 "EHLO enyo.dsw2k3.info" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753561AbXFKHYP (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:24:15 -0400 Message-ID: <466CF89A.9000806@citd.de> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:24:10 +0200 From: Matthias Schniedermeyer User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070601) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: Jesper Juhl , Tsugikazu Shibata , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, m-ikeda@ds.jp.nec.com Subject: Re: [RFD] Documentation/HOWTO translated into Japanese References: <20070610.204845.115909592.tshibata@ab.jp.nec.com> <9a8748490706100524o2dff1954ja7406f9303d8499f@mail.gmail.com> <20070610162221.GA12830@suse.de> <466C3B64.4070806@citd.de> <20070611060759.GB914@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20070611060759.GB914@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1250 Lines: 31 Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 07:56:52PM +0200, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: >> Greg KH wrote: >> I could see the point in ONE "HOWTO" file per language to get people >> started, but everything else is a pointless exercise. >> A developer/bug-reporter has to be able to express him-/herself in English >> and understand English, otherwise you can not accomplish very much. > > Yes, but this file, and the stable-api-nonsense.txt files are there to > help people understand both the kernel's philosophy, as well as > encourage them to help contribute. This was the part that i understood wrong. I thought the point was a translation of Documentation/*. A concur that translating this small set of files could be helpful. -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. - 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/