From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760713AbXGLUDT (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:03:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755691AbXGLUDF (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:03:05 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:1762 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755124AbXGLUDC (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:03:02 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:02:47 +0000 From: Pavel Machek 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, 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 Message-ID: <20070712200247.GA6001@ucw.cz> References: <989B956029373F45A0B8AF0297081890F05F2F@zch01exm26.fsl.freescale.net> <200707121205.20959.rob@landley.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200707121205.20959.rob@landley.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? > +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. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html