English is a de-facto standard for programming - languages, docs, most of the tools are in English. Books come out in English long before being translated.
This will not change any soon, and (I know it's controversial) but for the good of the devs-to-be, let GitHub remain non-localized.
I always feel the chill when someone pastes a non-English screenshot in places like StackOverflow. Or whenever I want to help some fellow dev in my company who happens to have installed Italian or French version of Firefox/Chrome/etc.!
We received a Chinese-language (not sure if Mandarin or what) to a KDE mailing list the other day. We could see it was relevant to us but there was no translation, nothing at all, none of us could understand the problem.
Eventually someone replied asking for them to re-submit an English description of the issue, hopefully they're able to do so. :-/
This will not change any soon, and (I know it's controversial) but for the good of the devs-to-be, let GitHub remain non-localized.
I always feel the chill when someone pastes a non-English screenshot in places like StackOverflow. Or whenever I want to help some fellow dev in my company who happens to have installed Italian or French version of Firefox/Chrome/etc.!