On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 02:18:18PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > Yes, but this file, and the stable-api-nonsense.txt files are there to > > help people understand both the kernel's philosophy, as well as > > encourage them to help contribute. > > > > That is totally different from internationalizing the internal kernel > > messages (which, btw, some people are working on...) That I would not > > agree to as it's just too hard to keep up with and would be pointless in > > a way. > > > > So I really do want to see a translated copy of the HOWTO, > > stable-api-nonsense.txt, and possibly a few other files in the main > > kernel tree (SubmittingPatches, CodingStyle, and SubmittingDrivers might > > all be good canidates for this.) These files change relativly > > infrequently (the HOWTO file has had only 7 changes in 1 and 1/2 years, > > and they were very minor ones) and should be easy for the translators to > > keep up with. > > But what is the point of having them in tree?
Wider exposure. It will greatly increase the "google-juice" of it and helps out when pointing people at the needed information. > Plus, I'm not even sure if we have enough space. There are lots of > languages. "space"? Since when are we running out of space? The kernel is "only" growing at 10% a year and is a mere 8.1 million lines or so. We have plenty of space on the mirrors to take up :) thanks, greg k-h - 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/
