linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PATCH] Update to Chinese documents

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:41:06 +0800
From:	Li Yang <leoli@...escale.com>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, gregkh@...e.de,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] Update to Chinese documents

On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 21:18 +0800, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 08:50:37PM +0800, Li Yang wrote: 
> > Please pull from the doc branch at: 
> > 
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/leo/chinese.git doc 
> > 
> > to receive the following updates to in-tree Chinese documents 
> > and to add newly translated guideline documents.
> 
> Hi Li Yang.
> 
> In another thread we have discussed localized versions of Kconfig 
> files facilitating po files. 
> Will the community you represent here see any advantage in that and 
> would be interested to contribute?

AFAIK, a guy here had started to translate the Kconfig directly.
Changing to use po file should be a better approach.

> 
> What is generally seen as a showstopper is the amount of work needed 
> to do the translation - and keeping it up-to-date.

Sure.  The key is to have more participants to involve.  The work can't
be done without a large contributor base.

> 
> If lkml actually accept .po files in the kernel is not yet setteled 
> but no matter I would like kconfig to be extended to support it. 

More people will be interested to participate by accepting .po files in
the kernel.

- Leo

> For this work help is needed too. 
> It is a pick-up of the Linux Kernel Translation project 
> (http://tlktp.sourceforge.net/) where several kconfig patches exists.
> 
>         Sam
> 

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/