From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758144AbXGQHfT (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:35:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750732AbXGQHfG (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:35:06 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:55744 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750767AbXGQHfF (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:35:05 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Ganesan Rajagopal Subject: Re: [PATCH] Chinese Language Maintainer Followup-To: gmane.linux.documentation Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:49:59 +0530 Message-ID: References: <989B956029373F45A0B8AF0297081890F05F2F@zch01exm26.fsl.freescale.net> <200707121205.20959.rob@landley.net> <1184330583.23373.65.camel@Gundam> <200707131352.12952.rob@landley.net> <469A6370.4020404@zytor.com> <20070715195008.6bdf48c7@the-village.bc.nu> <20070716224307.74483812@the-village.bc.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: grajagop-lnx.cisco.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.51 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DSuahH4Hdz+EGwh/4N67yt3FdHc= Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> Alan Cox writes: >> preferred. Moreover, technical education is completely in English. I don't >> see much value in translating developer documentation into Indian >> languages. User documentation is another story. > I am not convinced that users do not become developers, nor that we > should have language barriers that make this unneccessarily hard. Again speaking only from the Indian context, we're somewhat unique when compared to China and Japan ;-). It's extremely unlikely that a non-english speaking user will become a developer. As I mentioned in my previous mail technical education is almost completely in English. Most Indian IT work places communicate almost exclusively in English, including verbal communication because of employees from all over India with different native languages. English is not a language barrier for developers or even technical users from India. Ganesan -- Ganesan Rajagopal