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by pyre 4965 days ago
While this is true, it's to the detriment of their project not to have at least some English docs. It grants them the largest possible audience[1] for their project. Generating interest in their tool is one of the things that they need to do if they want it to be a successful open source project.

[1]: I guess it's possible that 'Chinese' might be close too, but I have no idea how the different dialects (Mandarin/Cantonese) would affect this.

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> [1]: I guess it's possible that 'Chinese' might be close too, but I have no idea how the different dialects (Mandarin/Cantonese) would affect this.

Cantonese isn't written down, strictly speaking; when you write Chinese, there aren't dialectic differences.

nginx didn't have english docs until 2 years after the project launched. Full story from Igor Here: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/151853

Also: Don't blame people for english lang proficiency.