Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: Documentation of kernel messages (Summary) | Date | Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:35:54 -0400 |
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On Thursday 12 July 2007 9:53:54 am Li Yang-r58472 wrote: > > Fielding patches and questions sounds like plenty to me...) > > I do think the documentation translation is very necessary even when > there is a language maintainer, especially for the policy documents as > HOWTO, codestyle , and etc. The contributors should go through these > policies and check their code for compliance before going to the > language maintainer for help, or there will be too much for the language > maintainer to translate. The language maintainer doesn't need to > translate all the documents himself, but he can help to coordinate the > translation effort and help to make it update to date.
It would help if all the policy documents got grouped into a single Documentation/development directory so we could separate "policy documents in each language would be nice" from "that document about the amiga zorro bus really needs to be kept up-to-date in Navajo and that should be in the kernel tarball please".
Lemme see, which ones are we talking about? The candidates are: applying-patches.txt BUG-HUNTING Changes CodingStyle debugging-modules.txt feature-removal-schedule.txt HOWTO kernel-docs.txt language-maintainers.txt ManagementStyle oops-tracing.txt SecurityBugs sparse.txt stable_api_nonsense.txt stable_kernel_rules.txt SubmitChecklist SubmittingDrivers SubmittingPatches volatile-considered-harmful.txt
That's everything I noticed in the top level directory that's a good candidate to be grouped into a "development" subdirectory. Did I miss anything?
I note that Changes is a bit stale in places (16 bit assembly?), feature-removal-schedule.txt changes often but is good to know, kernel-docs.txt might be useless to translate considering it's mostly links to english documentation, language-maintainers.txt is assuming my patch from earlier today gets accepted...
I can submit a patch grouping all that stuff together into a subdirectory if it would help...
> If we do need a contact person, I can do it. However I don't think > there will be much translation work to do here. As I stated before, > most Chinese programmers are more or less capable of read/write > technical English. The difficult part is to let them know the benefit > of merging code in kernel and teach them how to do it. That's why the > policy documents in native language will be very useful.
Does the above look like a good list? There are more that need to be written, but that's what I saw in Documentation...
Rob
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