[PATCH 0/7] docs/zh_TW: remove duplicated maintainer contact information

From: Chen-Yu Yeh

Date: Wed Aug 19 2026 - 10:59:46 EST

MAINTAINERS already records who to contact about the zh_TW
translations, yet every zh_TW file repeats that information in a
per-file contact block. The duplication has a concrete cost: the
listed zh_TW maintainer address appears in 58 files and there have now
been three separate attempts to rewrite it across the tree. In the
MAINTAINERS discussion Jon Corbet's conclusion was that, rather than
churning all of those addresses once more, the best thing is simply to
remove them.

There is a second reason. The zh_TW tree was produced by converting
zh_CN, and the credit blocks came across with the text: nearly every
address removed here also appears in
Documentation/translations/zh_CN/, several in more than a hundred
files. They credit the simplified-Chinese translation rather than
zh_TW work, so keeping them would leave the wrong attribution in place.

Removed:

- the :Translator: / :翻譯: / :校譯: / :譯者: credit blocks and the
譯者:: literal blocks
- the "please contact the ... maintainer" prose that introduces them
- the 英文版/中文版/繁體中文版維護者|翻譯者|校譯者 lines, including
their continuation lines
- the maintainer metadata lines in the legacy headers (M:, zh_CN:,
zh_TW:, Maintainer:, Chinese maintainer:, Traditional Chinese
maintainer:)

Left alone: :Original:, :作者: (the author of the English original),
:日期:, :更新:, the C: sync-commit references, copyright notices, and
every address that is part of a document body, such as
stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and the examples in submitting-patches.

Attribution for past work is preserved in the git history.

The last patch points disclaimer-zh_TW.rst and index.rst at
MAINTAINERS. The disclaimer is included by every zh_TW document and
was the one place naming a specific person, so it matters most here;
disclaimer-zh_CN.rst already works this way.

Built with "make SPHINXDIRS=translations htmldocs": no new warnings,
no errors.

This series conflicts with the pending zh_TW process/ series [1], which
adds a translator entry to the same blocks in fifteen of these files.
Please apply that one first; I will respin this on top if it lands in a
different shape.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/20260806181949.65648-1-chenyou910331@xxxxxxxxx/

Chen-Yu Yeh (7):
docs/zh_TW: process: remove maintainer contact information
docs/zh_TW: admin-guide: remove maintainer contact information
docs/zh_TW: arch: remove maintainer contact information
docs/zh_TW: dev-tools: remove maintainer contact information
docs/zh_TW: filesystems: remove maintainer contact information
docs/zh_TW: cpu-freq: remove maintainer contact information
docs/zh_TW: remove the last maintainer contact references

Documentation/translations/zh_TW/IRQ.txt | 8 --------
.../translations/zh_TW/admin-guide/README.rst | 5 -----
.../zh_TW/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst | 2 --
.../zh_TW/admin-guide/bug-bisect.rst | 5 -----
.../zh_TW/admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst | 5 -----
.../zh_TW/admin-guide/clearing-warn-once.rst | 2 --
.../translations/zh_TW/admin-guide/cpu-load.rst | 2 --
.../zh_TW/admin-guide/cputopology.rst | 4 ----
.../translations/zh_TW/admin-guide/index.rst | 2 --
.../translations/zh_TW/admin-guide/init.rst | 5 -----
.../zh_TW/admin-guide/lockup-watchdogs.rst | 1 -
.../zh_TW/admin-guide/mm/damon/index.rst | 6 ------
.../zh_TW/admin-guide/mm/damon/lru_sort.rst | 6 ------
.../zh_TW/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim.rst | 6 ------
.../zh_TW/admin-guide/mm/damon/start.rst | 6 ------
.../zh_TW/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst | 6 ------
.../translations/zh_TW/admin-guide/mm/index.rst | 5 -----
.../translations/zh_TW/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst | 5 -----
.../zh_TW/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst | 6 ------
.../zh_TW/admin-guide/reporting-regressions.rst | 5 -----
.../zh_TW/admin-guide/security-bugs.rst | 5 -----
.../translations/zh_TW/admin-guide/sysrq.rst | 8 --------
.../zh_TW/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst | 5 -----
.../translations/zh_TW/admin-guide/unicode.rst | 5 -----
.../translations/zh_TW/arch/arm/Booting | 7 -------
.../zh_TW/arch/arm/kernel_user_helpers.txt | 10 ----------
.../translations/zh_TW/arch/arm64/amu.rst | 3 ---
.../translations/zh_TW/arch/arm64/booting.txt | 8 --------
.../zh_TW/arch/arm64/elf_hwcaps.rst | 3 ---
.../zh_TW/arch/arm64/hugetlbpage.rst | 3 ---
.../translations/zh_TW/arch/arm64/index.rst | 2 --
.../zh_TW/arch/arm64/legacy_instructions.txt | 11 -----------
.../translations/zh_TW/arch/arm64/memory.txt | 9 ---------
.../translations/zh_TW/arch/arm64/perf.rst | 3 ---
.../zh_TW/arch/arm64/silicon-errata.txt | 8 --------
.../zh_TW/arch/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt | 9 ---------
.../zh_TW/arch/loongarch/booting.rst | 4 ----
.../zh_TW/arch/loongarch/features.rst | 1 -
.../translations/zh_TW/arch/loongarch/index.rst | 1 -
.../zh_TW/arch/loongarch/introduction.rst | 1 -
.../zh_TW/arch/loongarch/irq-chip-model.rst | 1 -
.../translations/zh_TW/arch/mips/booting.rst | 4 ----
.../translations/zh_TW/arch/mips/features.rst | 4 ----
.../translations/zh_TW/arch/mips/index.rst | 4 ----
.../zh_TW/arch/mips/ingenic-tcu.rst | 4 ----
.../translations/zh_TW/arch/openrisc/index.rst | 4 ----
.../zh_TW/arch/openrisc/openrisc_port.rst | 4 ----
.../translations/zh_TW/arch/openrisc/todo.rst | 4 ----
.../zh_TW/arch/parisc/debugging.rst | 4 ----
.../translations/zh_TW/arch/parisc/index.rst | 4 ----
.../zh_TW/arch/parisc/registers.rst | 4 ----
.../translations/zh_TW/cpu-freq/core.rst | 8 --------
.../translations/zh_TW/cpu-freq/cpu-drivers.rst | 8 --------
.../zh_TW/cpu-freq/cpufreq-stats.rst | 8 --------
.../translations/zh_TW/cpu-freq/index.rst | 4 ----
.../translations/zh_TW/dev-tools/gcov.rst | 1 -
.../zh_TW/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst | 1 -
.../translations/zh_TW/dev-tools/index.rst | 1 -
.../translations/zh_TW/dev-tools/kasan.rst | 1 -
.../translations/zh_TW/dev-tools/sparse.rst | 5 -----
.../zh_TW/dev-tools/testing-overview.rst | 1 -
.../translations/zh_TW/disclaimer-zh_TW.rst | 7 ++++---
.../translations/zh_TW/filesystems/debugfs.rst | 10 ----------
.../translations/zh_TW/filesystems/index.rst | 2 --
.../translations/zh_TW/filesystems/sysfs.txt | 10 ----------
.../translations/zh_TW/filesystems/virtiofs.rst | 8 --------
Documentation/translations/zh_TW/index.rst | 2 +-
.../translations/zh_TW/io_ordering.txt | 6 ------
.../translations/zh_TW/process/1.Intro.rst | 9 ---------
.../translations/zh_TW/process/2.Process.rst | 9 ---------
.../zh_TW/process/3.Early-stage.rst | 9 ---------
.../translations/zh_TW/process/4.Coding.rst | 9 ---------
.../translations/zh_TW/process/5.Posting.rst | 9 ---------
.../zh_TW/process/6.Followthrough.rst | 9 ---------
.../zh_TW/process/7.AdvancedTopics.rst | 9 ---------
.../translations/zh_TW/process/8.Conclusion.rst | 8 --------
.../process/code-of-conduct-interpretation.rst | 2 --
.../zh_TW/process/code-of-conduct.rst | 2 --
.../translations/zh_TW/process/coding-style.rst | 13 -------------
.../zh_TW/process/development-process.rst | 2 --
.../zh_TW/process/email-clients.rst | 11 -----------
.../zh_TW/process/embargoed-hardware-issues.rst | 2 --
.../translations/zh_TW/process/howto.rst | 17 -----------------
.../translations/zh_TW/process/index.rst | 2 --
.../zh_TW/process/kernel-driver-statement.rst | 2 --
.../process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst | 2 --
.../zh_TW/process/license-rules.rst | 2 --
.../translations/zh_TW/process/magic-number.rst | 8 --------
.../zh_TW/process/management-style.rst | 2 --
.../zh_TW/process/programming-language.rst | 2 --
.../zh_TW/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst | 10 ----------
.../zh_TW/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst | 11 -----------
.../zh_TW/process/submit-checklist.rst | 4 ----
.../zh_TW/process/submitting-patches.rst | 11 -----------
.../process/volatile-considered-harmful.rst | 12 ------------
95 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 505 deletions(-)

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