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. They should be able to read _and_ reply_ to lkml posts, and read and understnd code _and_ comments_. Those who cannot participate in development because they don't know English, won't get much help from some bits of semi-obsolete Documentation/* being available. Ok, they will read it, then what? How they are supposed to read the code? Write email? etc... There is only one practical solution: learn the language. It's not about *English* per se. It just happened so historically that CS has originated in English speaking countries. BTW, I learned it by reading sci-fi (Asimov's Foundation was the first thing), and then lkml. :) -- 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/
