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 |
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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