From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760162AbXGMQGh (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:06:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758917AbXGMQG0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:06:26 -0400 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:47500 "EHLO grelber.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758783AbXGMQGZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:06:25 -0400 From: Rob Landley Organization: Boundaries Unlimited To: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [PATCH] Chinese Language Maintainer Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:06:16 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Li Yang-r58472 , Gerrit Huizenga , "H. Peter Anvin" , "Kunai, Takashi" , holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lf_kernel_messages@linux-foundation.org, mtk-manpages@gmx.net, jack@suse.cz, randy.dunlap@oracle.com, gregkh@suse.de, tim.bird@am.sony.com, arjan@infradead.org, sam@ravnborg.org, jengelh@computergmbh.de, joe@perches.com, auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com, hansendc@us.ibm.com, davem@davemloft.net, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, kenistoj@us.ibm.com, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org References: <989B956029373F45A0B8AF0297081890F05F2F@zch01exm26.fsl.freescale.net> <200707121205.20959.rob@landley.net> <20070712200247.GA6001@ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20070712200247.GA6001@ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707131206.17297.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 12 July 2007 4:02:47 pm Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ > > +The langauges in which the Linux kernel is developed are C and English. > > +(Note that Linus Torvalds' native language is Swedish, yet he chose > > choose? I was trying for past tense. > > +A language maintainer accepts patches to the Linux kernel, written in C, > > from +authors who do not also speak English. The language maintainer > > translates the +description of each patch into English, forwards the > > patches to linux-kernel +and to the appropriate maintainers for inclusion > > in the Linux kernel, and +translates questions and replies about such > > patches as part of the +patch review process. > > Poor person... I'm not sure this can work for non-trivial patches. We'll see. Personally, I'm more worried about how people who don't speak english are supposed to choose function and variable names. But translating _just_ the patch is not the end of it, and I wanted to make that clear. I suppose a translator can always push back and ask for a _concise_ review, for the sake of translation. But let's not invent problems before they actually occur... > Pavel Rob -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson.