From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934026AbXGLTw3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:52:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756124AbXGLTwW (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:52:22 -0400 Received: from asia.telenet-ops.be ([195.130.137.74]:47787 "EHLO asia.telenet-ops.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755828AbXGLTwV (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:52:21 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:52:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Rob Landley 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, pavel@ucw.cz, 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 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Chinese Language Maintainer In-Reply-To: <200707121205.20959.rob@landley.net> Message-ID: References: <989B956029373F45A0B8AF0297081890F05F2F@zch01exm26.fsl.freescale.net> <200707121205.20959.rob@landley.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Rob Landley wrote: > --- /dev/null 2007-04-23 11:59:00.000000000 -0400 > +++ linux-2.6/Documentation/language-maintainers.txt 2007-07-12 11:49:20.000000000 -0400 > @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ > +The langauges in which the Linux kernel is developed are C and English. ^^^^^^^^^ languages > +(Note that Linus Torvalds' native language is Swedish, yet he chose > +to hold technical discussions in English.) > + > +The job of a language maintainer is to provide a point of contact for > +non-english speaking developers who wish to merge their patches into the > +Linux kernel. Each language needs a specific language maintainer, who > +accepts non-english patch submissions on behalf of the Linux kernel. ^^^^^^^^^^^ non-English > + > +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 Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds