On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 07:52:28PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
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> On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 09:22:21AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > >  Since the common language of most kernel contributors is english I
> > >  personally feel that we should stick to just that one language in the
> > >  tree and then perhaps keep translations on a website somewhere. So the
> > >  authoritative docs stay in the tree, in english, so that as many
> > >  contributors as possible can read and update them. It would then be a
> > >  seperate project to generate translations and keep them updated
> > >  according to what's in the tree.  Perhaps we could get the kernel.org
> > >  people to create an official space for that and then place a pointer
> > >  to that site in Documentation/ somewhere.
> > 
> > No, I think the translated files should be in the tree proper, we have
> > the space :)
> 
> We once discussed about .po files for kconfig and back then
> the conclusion was not to keep them in the kernel tree.
> 
> I advocated that they should stay out back then.
> But on the other hand I do not see it causing much troubles
> having scripts/kconfig/po/da.po etc araound.
> 
> Any opinion about the .po files?

I have no objection for them to be around in the tree, it might help out
some users who want to build their own kernels, and allow the -stable
kernels to catch up on the translations.

So I would encourage their addition, if possible.

thanks,

greg 'not everyone speaks english' k-h
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