Hello Matic, On 6/7/24 14:11, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Fri, Jun 07, 2024 at 05:45:10PM +0000, Matic Urbanija wrote: >> Hi, >> >> first of all, I'm terribly sorry if this isn't the right place to ask about translation. I sent an email to helpdesk but so far no answer from them. > This is the right place! > >> My name is Matic Urbanija, I am a teacher at Vegova - Upper Secondary School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Technical Gymnasium Ljubljana, Slovenia (https://www.vegova.si/about-us-vegova/). >> >> I would like to translate kernel documentation into Slovenian language. Maybe some of my students would also like to participate. >> >> Are there some special requirements or procedures which have to be fulfilled before starting translation project? What is the proper or recommend way to start to translate the kernel documentation? > Start by creating Documentation/translations/sl/ (the iso639 code for Slovenian) > Add an entry to Documentation/translations/index.rst > Add Documentation/translations/sl/index.rst Your first commit will probably resemble this: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?h=next-20240607&id=444064185df7c4b0f7bb41e25b1bb197a1e4a918 but, please, don't add yourself to MAINTAINERS if you aren't willing to review future contributions (maintaining). This is a fantastic way to introduce your students to the kernel contribution process. Note they should at least have a basic understanding of operating systems and low-level languages (mostly C) to translate effectively. Feel free to add my email in CC in future communications so I can help. > > Now start adding documents ;-) > > You can send patches to this mailing list for Jon to apply to the > documentation tree for merging. > Thanks, Carlos
