Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 07:48:40 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
       linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kbuild update
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On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 03:39:53PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 09:23:16PM +0800, WANG Cong wrote:
> > 
> > {snip}
> > 
> > >TODO items (from my mailbox - I have plenty more)
> > >=================================================
>...
> > >- i18n patch for mconf and friends (from Kernel Translator project)
> > >  is old but several bits of it needs to be applied to better support i18n
> > 
> > Hmm, I glanced at that project. It's old and seems freezed now.
> > I don't know if people still have interests in the i18n of kconfig.
> > If so, I think I can help with the Chinese part. ;)
> 
> >From the off-list communication I have had there is indeed an interest.
> It sort of stopped at one point due to missing integration in mainline.
> What I refer to is mostly the mconf.c bits, but I would also like to
> see what lkml says to a sample of .po files included in the kernel
> for a number of languages.
> 
> One criteria to get a .po file integrated could be at least 10% of the
> strings translated or similar.

Besides the initial translation efforts a big problem would be to 
also find people who will regularly update the translations for
many years.

Otherwise the next round of spelling fixes will push this far
below 10%...

> 	Sam

cu
Adrian

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