Re: [PATCH v2] MAINTAINERS: update Traditional Chinese documentation maintainers

Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:51:39 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.linux.documentation,gmane.linux.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Chen-Yu Yeh <[email protected]> writes:

> The zh_TW translation has been unmaintained for about two years: the
> listed maintainer has been unreachable, and because no active
> maintainer was listed, get_maintainer.pl did not point contributors at
> anyone who could actually pick up a patch. My own zh_TW patch sat on
> the list for five weeks for exactly that reason.
>
> Following the discussion in [1] and the plan in [2], list the people
> who have stepped up to carry zh_TW forward, with a shift in focus
> towards Taiwanese Mandarin terminology rather than a plain
> simplified-to-traditional conversion.
>
> Move Hu Haowen to CREDITS and drop his personal repository links,
> which are no longer reachable. The current translation is built on his
> work, but MAINTAINERS is a list of who to contact, and the listed
> address has not answered zh_TW mail for about two years, which is what
> made zh_TW hard to contribute to in the first place.
>
> zh_TW stays a separate entry and is maintained separately from zh_CN;
> the two may share a tree for pull requests, but the review and
> terminology work is independent.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/<[email protected]>/
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/<[email protected]>/
>
> Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Yeh <[email protected]>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
>  - Drop Hu Haowen's M: entry (Jonathan Corbet); a CREDITS patch will
>    follow separately.
>  - Move the division of responsibilities below --- as suggested by
>    Weijie: it will drift over time, and a commit message is the one
>    place it cannot be updated.
>  - Collected Weijie's Acked-by.
>
> Current split of work, for the record rather than for the git history:
>
>   Chen-Yu Yeh   - translation and zh_TW terminology decisions
>   Weijie Yuan   - miscellaneous matters, list monitoring, status reports
>   Dongliang Mu  - review
>
> The address in the CREDITS entry is the one Hu Haowen asked to be
> listed under in [3].
>
> [3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/[email protected]/
>
>  CREDITS     | 4 ++++
>  MAINTAINERS | 6 +++---
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

jon