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Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:28:34 +0800
From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
       linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kbuild update
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>
>"only" is the wrong word in this context.
>
>If someone would update the translations for one language every
>3 months for the next years that would be great and disprove my 
>concerns.
>
>After all, updates every 3 months would beat the maintainance level of 
>at least three of our architectures...

Hmm, yes.

>
>And don't underestimate the amount of work required - even when talking 
>about requiring "only" 10% of the help texts translated that's a four 
>digit number of lines to translate.

Thanks for your point. I agree that the initial work is not so easy.

>
>> If we can make this to be an offical project for Linux kernel, I
>> think it won't be a big problem.
>
>We don't even manage to maintain the English language texts properly,
>and I am therefore not overly optimistic that we'll have the 
>translations maintained properly for many years.
>
>OTOH, if someone wouldn't just blindly translate the outdated English 
>texts but also review the English texts when translating this alone 
>might be worth it...

Fully agreed.

Maybe we can restart TLKTP?


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