Re: Kbuild update

From: WANG Cong
Date: Tue Jan 08 2008 - 21:29:17 EST



>
>"only" is the wrong word in this context.
>
>If someone would update the translations for one language every
>3 months for the next years that would be great and disprove my
>concerns.
>
>After all, updates every 3 months would beat the maintainance level of
>at least three of our architectures...

Hmm, yes.

>
>And don't underestimate the amount of work required - even when talking
>about requiring "only" 10% of the help texts translated that's a four
>digit number of lines to translate.

Thanks for your point. I agree that the initial work is not so easy.

>
>> If we can make this to be an offical project for Linux kernel, I
>> think it won't be a big problem.
>
>We don't even manage to maintain the English language texts properly,
>and I am therefore not overly optimistic that we'll have the
>translations maintained properly for many years.
>
>OTOH, if someone wouldn't just blindly translate the outdated English
>texts but also review the English texts when translating this alone
>might be worth it...

Fully agreed.

Maybe we can restart TLKTP?


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