On Monday 11 June 2007 02:56, Paul Mundt wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 01:59:00AM +0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > > On Sunday 10 June 2007 20:58, Rene Herman wrote: > > > All that stuff only serves to multiply the speed at which a fixed > > > percentage of content obsoletes itself. When it's still new and > > > shiny, sure, stuff will get translated but in no time at all it'll > > > become a fragmented mess which nobody ever feels right about removing > > > because that would be anti-social to all those poor non-english > > > speaking kernel hackers out there. > > > > I agree. i18n efforts won't help one iota because people just have > > to know English in order to participate in l-k development. > > That's a ridiculous statement. Non-native language abilities and > technical competence have very little to do with each other. People have > to understand the code and figure out what it is that they want to > change. As long as this is done cleanly and the intent is obvious, > language doesn't even factor in beyond the Signed-off-by tag. Explanation > is necessary from time to time, but it really depends on the area in > which someone is working. If it's a complicated and involved change, then > of course it takes a bit more effort on both sides, but that doesn't > invalidate the importance or necessity of the work.
Point me to one person who doesn't know English at all and who has successfully participated in l-k devel. I'm not saying that non-English should banned or something. In Kconfig it can even make sense. A section on kernel.org where people can put translations is also a good idea. I can still think that it is almost useless activity, but who knows, maybe I'm wrong. Just not Documentation/<lang>/* thing and no i18n of printks. -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/