| Federico Vaga | 85c32d9 | 2018-06-06 00:49:00 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | .. _translations: |
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| 3 | ============ |
| 4 | Translations |
| 5 | ============ |
| 6 | |
| Federico Vaga | 224b1e8 | 2019-03-23 18:54:16 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | .. toctree:: |
| 8 | :maxdepth: 1 |
| 9 | |
| 10 | zh_CN/index |
| 11 | it_IT/index |
| 12 | ko_KR/index |
| 13 | ja_JP/index |
| 14 | |
| 15 | |
| Federico Vaga | 20bd124 | 2019-03-14 21:45:16 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | .. _translations_disclaimer: |
| 17 | |
| 18 | Disclaimer |
| 19 | ---------- |
| 20 | |
| Federico Vaga | 224b1e8 | 2019-03-23 18:54:16 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | Translation's purpose is to ease reading and understanding in languages other |
| Federico Vaga | 20bd124 | 2019-03-14 21:45:16 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | than English. Its aim is to help people who do not understand English or have |
| 23 | doubts about its interpretation. Additionally, some people prefer to read |
| 24 | documentation in their native language, but please bear in mind that the |
| 25 | *only* official documentation is the English one: :ref:`linux_doc`. |
| 26 | |
| 27 | It is very unlikely that an update to :ref:`linux_doc` will be propagated |
| 28 | immediately to all translations. Translations' maintainers - and |
| 29 | contributors - follow the evolution of the official documentation and they |
| 30 | maintain translations aligned as much as they can. For this reason there is |
| 31 | no guarantee that a translation is up to date. If what you read in a |
| 32 | translation does not sound right compared to what you read in the code, please |
| 33 | inform the translation maintainer and - if you can - check also the English |
| 34 | documentation. |
| 35 | |
| 36 | A translation is not a fork of the official documentation, therefore |
| 37 | translations' users should not find information that differs from the official |
| 38 | English documentation. Any content addition, removal or update, must be |
| 39 | applied to the English documents first. Afterwards and when possible, the |
| 40 | same change should be applied to translations. Translations' maintainers |
| 41 | accept only contributions that are merely translation related (e.g. new |
| 42 | translations, updates, fixes). |
| 43 | |
| 44 | Translations try to be as accurate as possible but it is not possible to map |
| 45 | one language directly to all other languages. Each language has its own |
| 46 | grammar and culture, so the translation of an English statement may need to be |
| 47 | adapted to fit a different language. For this reason, when viewing |
| 48 | translations, you may find slight differences that carry the same message but |
| 49 | in a different form. |
| 50 | |
| 51 | If you need to communicate with the Linux community but you do not feel |
| Federico Vaga | 224b1e8 | 2019-03-23 18:54:16 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 52 | comfortable writing in English, you can ask the translation's maintainers |
| 53 | for help. |