Re: [PATCH v2] MAINTAINERS: update Traditional Chinese documentation maintainers
From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Wed Aug 05 2026 - 14:51:47 EST
Chen-Yu Yeh <chenyou910331@xxxxxxxxx> 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/<20260603082531.263115-1-chenyou910331@xxxxxxxxx>/
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/<amcZ5SI3-Hzw4HkJ@xxxxxxxxx>/
>
> Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Yeh <chenyou910331@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 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/20260220160201.41149-1-srcres258@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> CREDITS | 4 ++++
> MAINTAINERS | 6 +++---
> 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Applied, thanks.
jon