Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762484AbXFTF6B (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:58:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758423AbXFTF5x (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:57:53 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:51120 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757616AbXFTF5w (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:57:52 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:57:02 -0700 From: Greg KH To: dave young Cc: Li Yang-r58472 , WANG Cong , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, TripleX Chung , Maggie Chen , Tejun Heo , Fengguang Wu , Chen Li-jun Subject: Re: [PATCH] Chinese translation of Documentation/HOWTO Message-ID: <20070620055702.GA4794@suse.de> References: <989B956029373F45A0B8AF0297081890D82DF1@zch01exm26.fsl.freescale.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1419 Lines: 38 On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 05:22:49AM +0000, dave young wrote: > Hi, > 2007/6/20, Li Yang-r58472 : > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: dave young [mailto:hidave.darkstar@gmail.com] > > > Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 9:58 AM > > > To: WANG Cong > > > Cc: Li Yang-r58472; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; gregkh@suse.de; > > TripleX Chung; > > > Maggie Chen; Tejun Heo; Fengguang Wu; Chen Li-jun > > > Subject: Re: [PATCH] Chinese translation of Documentation/HOWTO > > > > > > Hi, > > > IMHO, it is not very suitable for translations merging into kernel. > > > > > > first, It's impossible to be 100% accurate. > > > > It can be accurate by meaning. And it can be improved. > > > > > second, two or more language need to be synced with english one, it's > > > a problem in the long run. > > > > This can be done through good maintenance. I don't think it's harder > > than maintaining the code in kernel source tree. > > Yes, but the documents updating are always late than the sources. These files change _very_ slowly, only 5 minor changes in the past 3 years or so. I think the translators can keep up with that :) thanks, greg k-h - 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/