Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760181AbXFKJbw (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:31:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752887AbXFKJbp (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:31:45 -0400 Received: from smtpq1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl ([213.51.146.200]:37243 "EHLO smtpq1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752106AbXFKJbo (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:31:44 -0400 Message-ID: <466D15BB.2080705@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:28:27 +0200 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Bunk CC: Denis Vlasenko , Sam Ravnborg , 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] References: <20070610.204845.115909592.tshibata@ab.jp.nec.com> <20070610175228.GA28947@uranus.ravnborg.org> <466C49DB.6040409@gmail.com> <200706110159.00482.vda.linux@googlemail.com> <20070611001434.GD3588@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20070611001434.GD3588@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1416 Lines: 31 On 06/11/2007 02:14 AM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 01:59:00AM +0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote: >> I agree. i18n efforts won't help one iota because people just have >> to know English in order to participate in l-k development. >> They should be able to read _and_ reply_ to lkml posts, >> and read and understnd code _and_ comments_. >> ... > > Kconfig is different since the target audience and the majority of users > are not kernel developers. Well, hardly. The percentages quoted vary wildly with the point someone is trying to make but "user users" are expected to just use whatever their distribution provided them with meaning the Kconfig target audience is developers and "power users". Enough of the latter around certainly but I have no indication whatsoever that a significant number of them is lost in the water without Kconfig translations either. Internationalization is not very useful, has great potential to introduce even more chronically bit-rotting content and is finally counter-productive in maintaining a non-forking single community, at least in so far as it is today. One should spit on internationalization. Rene. - 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/