Re: [GIT PATCH] Update to Chinese documents

[Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>]

On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 21:18 +0800, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 08:50:37PM +0800, Li Yang wrote: 
> > Please pull from the doc branch at: 
> > 
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/leo/chinese.git doc 
> > 
> > to receive the following updates to in-tree Chinese documents 
> > and to add newly translated guideline documents.
> 
> Hi Li Yang.
> 
> In another thread we have discussed localized versions of Kconfig 
> files facilitating po files. 
> Will the community you represent here see any advantage in that and 
> would be interested to contribute?

AFAIK, a guy here had started to translate the Kconfig directly.
Changing to use po file should be a better approach.

> 
> What is generally seen as a showstopper is the amount of work needed 
> to do the translation - and keeping it up-to-date.

Sure.  The key is to have more participants to involve.  The work can't
be done without a large contributor base.

> 
> If lkml actually accept .po files in the kernel is not yet setteled 
> but no matter I would like kconfig to be extended to support it. 

More people will be interested to participate by accepting .po files in
the kernel.

- Leo

> For this work help is needed too. 
> It is a pick-up of the Linux Kernel Translation project 
> (http://tlktp.sourceforge.net/) where several kconfig patches exists.
> 
>         Sam
>