Two new documentation directories were merged into the upcoming 2.6.23 mainline kernel, containing translations of the HOWTO and stable_api_nonsense.txt documents in Japanese and Chinese. Greg KH explained, "here are some patches that add some translations of some procedural documentation files to the Documentation/ tree." Regarding some of the concerns that were expressed with merging translated documentation into the mainline kernel tarball, Greg noted, "these files change _very_ slowly over time, and are quite easy to keep up to date by the translators." He added:

"I know that kernel development is in English, but translations of a small subset of documentation files that go over procedures and how to get involved in the community is something that I feel is important and will bring in more developers in the end. Having these files in the kernel tree is a good way to keep a central location that all can see and easily find, instead of hiding them away on different web sites that might be harder to update by anyone who needs to do so."

From:	Greg KH [email blocked]
To:	Linus Torvalds [email blocked], Andrew Morton [email blocked]
Subject: [GIT PATCH] Documentation patches for 2.6.22
Date:	Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:23:46 -0700

Here are some patches that add some translations of some procedural
documentation files to the Documentation/ tree.

I know that kernel development is in English, but translations of a
small subset of documentation files that go over procedures and how to
get involved in the community is something that I feel is important and
will bring in more developers in the end.  Having these files in the
kernel tree is a good way to keep a central location that all can see
and easily find, instead of hiding them away on different web sites that
might be harder to update by anyone who needs to do so.

These files change _very_ slowly over time, and are quite easy to keep
up to date by the translators.

These patches have been in the -mm tree for a large number of months.

Please pull from:
	master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/docs-2.6.git/

Patches will be sent as a follow-on to this message to lkml for people
to see.

thanks,

greg k-h


 Documentation/ja_JP/HOWTO                   |  650 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 Documentation/ja_JP/stable_api_nonsense.txt |  263 +++++++++++
 Documentation/zh_CN/HOWTO                   |  536 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 Documentation/zh_CN/stable_api_nonsense.txt |  157 +++++++
 4 files changed, 1606 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/ja_JP/HOWTO
 create mode 100644 Documentation/ja_JP/stable_api_nonsense.txt
 create mode 100644 Documentation/zh_CN/HOWTO
 create mode 100644 Documentation/zh_CN/stable_api_nonsense.txt

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IKEDA, Munehiro (1):
      Documentation: add Japanese translated stable_api_nonsense.txt

Li Yang (2):
      HOWTO: add Chinese translation of Documentation/HOWTO

TripleX (1):
      Chinese translation of Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt

Tsugikazu Shibata (1):

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