On Friday 22 June 2007 05:21:23 Alan Cox wrote: > > The question is, do the kernel developers want to encourage people who > > don't speak English to mess with the kernel, any more than they want to > > encourage kernel developers who don't know C? Is kernel documentation in > > Chinese a > > The majority of the world population do not speak English. There are > existing contributors do not speak English (and I'm not being funny about > the USSA here) - you don't notice because they have a team member who > speaks passable English.
Ok. Cool. If this is not a problem, that's good to know. > There are also entire non-English sites around things like Linux that > monoglot English speakers generally don't notice exist. I'm aware of this. > > P.S. The hardest part of putting together a kernel documentation web > > page is actually indexing it coherently. It's not very useful to just > > dump together > > For the kernel I would follow the kernel tree so that its always > > /[languagecode]/Documentation/... That PS was about putting up a kernel doc web page, not about the existing kernel Documentation tree. The existing Documentation tree has, at the top level, coding style guidelines, files documenting the kernel community, a file documenting the Amiga "zorro" bus, a half-dozen files about old multiport serial cards, documentation about several different types of locking, a penguin graphic from 1996, your documentation on the tty layer, a document on how to configure BINFMT_MISC to autorun .NET files with mono, and zillions of other random unrelated topics that are sorted based on where random passerby put things down last. I sent a couple patches to shuffle stuff around in there but it got lost on the noise. More to the point, an HTML index can hotlink but text files have a harder time doing that, so if I'm making an HTML index it's probably best to link to the text files but not attempt to navigate with them. Rob -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson. - 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/
