Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755905AbXFVJRM (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:17:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752211AbXFVJQ6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:16:58 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:53540 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751493AbXFVJQ5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:16:57 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:21:23 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Rob Landley Cc: "dave young" , "Li Yang" , gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com, bryan.wu@analog.com, "TripleX Chung" , "Maggie Chen" , torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Chinese translation of Documentation/HOWTO Message-ID: <20070622102123.49182855@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <200706220133.19496.rob@landley.net> References: <1182436817579-git-send-email-leoli@freescale.com> <200706212248.34128.rob@landley.net> <200706220133.19496.rob@landley.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1229 Lines: 28 > The question is, do the kernel developers want to encourage people who don't > speak English to mess with the kernel, any more than they want to encourage > kernel developers who don't know C? Is kernel documentation in Chinese a The majority of the world population do not speak English. There are existing contributors do not speak English (and I'm not being funny about the USSA here) - you don't notice because they have a team member who speaks passable English. There are also entire non-English sites around things like Linux that monoglot English speakers generally don't notice exist. > P.S. The hardest part of putting together a kernel documentation web page is > actually indexing it coherently. It's not very useful to just dump together For the kernel I would follow the kernel tree so that its always /[languagecode]/Documentation/... that works fairly well although their are political fights you can get into over China/Taiwan and over Burmese. Alan - 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/