Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:18:18 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>,
       Tsugikazu Shibata <tshibata@ab.jp.nec.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, m-ikeda@ds.jp.nec.com
Subject: Re: [RFD] Documentation/HOWTO translated into Japanese
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Hi!

> 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.
> 
> That is totally different from internationalizing the internal kernel
> messages (which, btw, some people are working on...)  That I would not
> agree to as it's just too hard to keep up with and would be pointless in
> a way.
> 
> So I really do want to see a translated copy of the HOWTO,
> stable-api-nonsense.txt, and possibly a few other files in the main
> kernel tree (SubmittingPatches, CodingStyle, and SubmittingDrivers might
> all be good canidates for this.)  These files change relativly
> infrequently (the HOWTO file has had only 7 changes in 1 and 1/2 years,
> and they were very minor ones) and should be easy for the translators to
> keep up with.

But what is the point of having them in tree?

- regular review process does not work for them.

- regular release process does not work for them; translations want
release few days after -stable is released.

- kernel contributors will _not_ be able to fix them when they change
the original.

Plus, I'm not even sure if we have enough space. There are lots of
languages.
							Pavel
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