+1 for English as much as I like language variety.
Otis
----- Original Message ----
> From: Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org>
> To: java-dev@lucene.apache.org
> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 7:33:05 PM
> Subject: Re: javadoc language
>
> I think they should be in English. Keeping the Chinese would be fine as
> well,
> but seems kind of pointless given all the other javadocs are in English.
>
>
> On Jun 19, 2009, at 12:49 PM, Robert Muir wrote:
>
> > While hunting down some strange behavior in SmartChineseAnalyzer, I
> > noticed the javadocs are in Chinese.
> >
> > some of these do not reflect the method params, which makes it a
> > little harder to work with.
> >
> > /**
> > * 设计上是SentenceTokenizer的下一处理层。将SentenceTokenizer的句子读出，
> > * 利用HHMMSegment主程序将句子分词，然后将分词结果返回。
> > *
> > * @param in 句子的Token
> > * @param smooth 平滑函数
> > * @param dataPath 装载核心字典与二叉字典的目录
> > * @see init()
> > */
> > public WordTokenizer(TokenStream in, WordSegmenter wordSegmenter) {
> > this.in = in;
> > this.wordSegmenter = wordSegmenter;
> > }
> >
> > So I wonder, should the javadocs be in Chinese, English, or both?
> >
> > If they are in chinese, then developers that only speak english might
> > have a tough time.
> > If they are in english, chinese users might have a tough time, but
> > then again the rest of lucene javadoc is in english.
> > If they are in both, maintaining the chinese javadocs will be
> > difficult for developers that only speak english, and vice-versa.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > --Robert Muir
> > rcm...@gmail.com
> >
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