> The question is, do the kernel developers want to encourage people who don't
> speak English to mess with the kernel, any more than they want to encourage
> kernel developers who don't know C? Is kernel documentation in Chinese a
The majority of the world population do not speak English. There are
existing contributors do not speak English (and I'm not being funny about
the USSA here) - you don't notice because they have a team member who
speaks passable English.
There are also entire non-English sites around things like Linux that
monoglot English speakers generally don't notice exist.
> P.S. The hardest part of putting together a kernel documentation web page is
> actually indexing it coherently. It's not very useful to just dump together
For the kernel I would follow the kernel tree so that its always
/[languagecode]/Documentation/...
that works fairly well although their are political fights you can get
into over China/Taiwan and over Burmese.
Alan
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