From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937025AbXGQVG2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:06:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758085AbXGQVGS (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:06:18 -0400 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:41284 "EHLO grelber.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755550AbXGQVGR (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:06:17 -0400 From: Rob Landley Organization: Boundaries Unlimited To: leo@zh-kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Chinese Language Maintainer Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:06:14 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Tsugikazu Shibata , gh@us.ibm.com, hpa@zytor.com, kunai@linux-foundation.jp, holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lf_kernel_messages@linux-foundation.org References: <1184330583.23373.65.camel@Gundam> <20070716.114948.48508930.tshibata@ab.jp.nec.com> <469CED27.4060904@zh-kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <469CED27.4060904@zh-kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707171706.14422.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 17 July 2007 12:24:07 pm Li Yang wrote: > Here is the helper process I propose to help more people to participate. > Suggestions and comments are welcomed. > > 1) Developer who can't speak English or has a problem going through the > submission process sends patches to the Language maintainer and cc the > local mail list provided. > 2) Language maintainer and experienced Linux developer on the local mail > list can review the patch and give comments in native language. > 3) When the language maintainer thinks the patch is good in general, he > will pass the patch onto corresponding subsystem maintainer and mail > list for further review, cc the author and local list. > 4) The author communicates directly with the community. > 5) If the author has a problem understanding the comments or expressing > himself in English, he can ask for help in native language on the local > list. The language maintainer and the developers on the list are > responsible to help out. > 6) When the developer gets familiar with the submission process and can > go through it with no problem, he can then submit patch directly without > the helper process and probably join the mail list to help other new > developer. You know your area better than I do. If you think that will work, I certainly have no objections... > - Leo Rob -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson.