Re: [PATCH 1/2] docs: doc-guide: add a guide for translators

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Weijie Yuan <wy@wyuan.org> writes:

>> > For the Translator field, zh_TW just did a cleanup to totally remove
>> > them.
>> 
>> Makes sense. I dropped the ":Translator:" line from the example, and the
>> guide keeps the advice to leave contact information to MAINTAINERS.
>
> I personally think this is somehow a hard tradeoff, so my opinion is
> rather neutral, and I respect your decisions.
>
> On the one hand, I think keeping this field is indeed a way to give
> credit to the contributors, which can motivate more contributions and
> contributors. On the other hand, over the years, this field has seemed a
> bit cumbersome and inconsistent in both Chinese translations.

I personally don't see why translations are different from any other
contribution in this regard.  The credit lives in the commit logs; we
don't sprinkle our names throughout the source for every change we make.

Thanks,

jon