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

Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]> Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:02:46 -0600
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-doc,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Weijie Yuan <[email protected]> writes:

>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>> index 2f9472c1a090..60f77e7fd3f5 100644
>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> @@ -27460,10 +27460,11 @@ F:	kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
>>  F:	kernel/trace/trace_sched_wakeup.c
>>  
>>  TRADITIONAL CHINESE DOCUMENTATION
>> +M:	Chen-Yu Yeh <[email protected]>
>> +M:	Weijie Yuan <[email protected]>
>>  M:	Hu Haowen <[email protected]>
>
> Agreed: Haowen is always welcomed :-)

Nonetheless, I'm not sure I see the value of listing a maintainer who
has not maintained for years; a move to CREDITS may be in order.

> I remembered Haowen sent a patch here [1] aiming to change his name and
> address to:
>
> Haowen Hu <[email protected]>
>
> Can we pick it up here?, while it may also needs Haowen's double check..
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/[email protected]/

I resisted that because it was the third time churning all of those
email addresses in all of those files.  If we are going to address them
now, I think the best thing is to simply remove them.

Thanks,

jon