linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Chinese translation of Documentation/HOWTO

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Message-ID: <20070622102123.49182855@the-village.bc.nu>
Date:	Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:21:23 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
Cc:	"dave young" <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>,
	"Li Yang" <leoli@...escale.com>, gregkh@...e.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com,
	bryan.wu@...log.com, "TripleX Chung" <xxx.phy@...il.com>,
	"Maggie Chen" <chenqi@...ondsoft.com>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Chinese translation of Documentation/HOWTO

> 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
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