Re: [PATCH 1/2] docs/zh_CN: remove translator-related headers

From: Weijie Yuan

Date: Sat Oct 17 2026 - 05:14:07 EST


On 2026-10-17 16:27:12 +0800, Weijie Yuan <wy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2026-10-17 10:06:39 +0800, Dongliang Mu <dzm91@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On 10/17/26 12:52 AM, Weijie Yuan wrote:
> > > The headers related to translators and proofreaders appear multiple
> > > times in our directory. Their information is duplicated with that in the
> > > commit logs, making it difficult to maintain over an extended period
> > > of time, as there have been multiple instances of requests to update the
> > > email address.
> > >
> > > Remove all the related fields to make our source clean.
> > >
> > > Suggested-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Weijie Yuan <wy@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > The diffs are inconvenient to review, sorry. Because I cannot find a
> > > better way to split them up besides by directories.
> >
> > 1. I recommend to preserve the RST anchors because other files would use
> > this.
>
> Yes, I also removed some top-level labels while I was at it, though I
> would better have done that in a separate patch. (My Git index was messy
> with these large diff. So later, the topic was expanded to a cleanup.
> But yes, I should split it)
>
> But I checked that none of these removed labels are referenced
> elsewhere, if I was doing it correctly. (No invalid citations were
> reported by 'make htmldocs'.)

Oops, I mean the removed labels are not used by other places according
to 'make htmldocs'.

Thanks.

>
> Anyway, I'll not touch these labels in next re-roll.
>
> > 2. There are three checkpatch SPDX warnings during the review:
> >
> > dev-tools/sparse.rst | Missing or malformed SPDX-License-Identifier tag in
> > line 1
> > process/howto.rst | Missing or malformed SPDX-License-Identifier tag in line
> > 1
> > process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst | Missing or malformed
> > SPDX-License-Identifier tag in line 1
> >
> > Each warning is triggered because the patch changes that file´s first line.
> > All three files already lacked an SPDX tag before the patch.
>
> Oh, I forgot to mention this when writing cover lettter, sorry I did
> send these emails a bit too hastily.
>
> I did run checkpatch and got these reminders.
>
> The original Engish versions of these three are missing
> SPDX-License-Identifier(s), so as far as I know, our translation is
> better not to add this first.?
>
> Please see: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/87y0dv1wp3.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> But I guess we could add the identifier with Alex's and Yanteng's ack,
> as they are the original translator if we want to.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> p.s. Many of the recipients' addresses are no longer in use. To avoid
> unnecessary clutter, I will simplify the list of recipients in the next
> version.