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

From: Jonathan Corbet

Date: Fri Jul 31 2026 - 09:09:17 EST


Weijie Yuan <wy@xxxxxxxxx> 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 <chenyou910331@xxxxxxxxx>
>> +M: Weijie Yuan <wy@xxxxxxxxx>
>> M: Hu Haowen <2023002089@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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 <srcres258@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Can we pick it up here?, while it may also needs Haowen's double check..
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/20260220160201.41149-1-srcres258@xxxxxxxxxx/

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