From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ms.lwn.net (ms.lwn.net [45.79.88.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C51834FDE75; Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:50:41 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=45.79.88.28 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1792072243; cv=none; b=ox+6XTPR7hx5DQqag59DOQVFZRUYMF1rkF6zHKjH1pFH5cbbTgJydFFwOn8tx0mDXFrziYCVqKKYdgnR9zjYbEs+hPHmtATHam7l2AXIG4f7ySUi0E2yvBbe0tX17apiuvuDcGJdQsW4m5wRxbNP8te435Piehpv349kVN8SGMQ= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1792072243; c=relaxed/simple; bh=SjlwPy0CRFqomUfSqsGh6ay+B0bDNNJbX3CFGC4BM4c=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=IL1PWda3vFvtXRVF9yJu/N2M+RT+12lCuSWGwzCSSI998IekmJtPcJ8nN8zMx+rb+r0PEUG1zAq+cNU51SPJX3BsROSl5BhaHAw5v3JSO4LPYqCeTwdndu7Ln8kPuom5eeQNqDR84Gj6hLl+mNs9HFjXTLnpL5n2ZjDQZL0qc48= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lwn.net; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lwn.net; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=lwn.net header.i=@lwn.net header.b=P0UWooro; arc=none smtp.client-ip=45.79.88.28 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lwn.net Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lwn.net Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=lwn.net header.i=@lwn.net header.b="P0UWooro" DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 ms.lwn.net D9C0B4091F DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lwn.net; s=20201203; t=1792072241; bh=R2BXY9y/wAaqLSkiSl4J5qkXQhTuV5TrTLzdsEXJLuk=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=P0UWoorozbN6ujMZclvz85JPKgd8DVsEVD4A+7ZqwjeOf6njcaRlD3BN5I+JOopLK ABMzcwrgCBdpgjnESFpp48yeopxwN0WlFUbSQIwu2BJFNBSh7nlNj2Y+hDFYoayu2y x/zbHvJKmKd1I/g5SqBaZJpq2RF2XYVzh0pVtbr8t37c5WxNHk9fHDInCavnI9cOdS eHnF75xhDeBCCjGHgbgVgyvOjMUgc4sEjQGw7YKpYK7nCYIxoU4uSBylMMBx1ysnjv GlPblNZwpDKaGvOMxob+kl7SiHQQYIcX+rxf3FlXePW3oHzL3gLeMWkt50oFcy9ufv 7ssyoGEly0rtw== Received: from localhost (unknown [IPv6:2601:280:4600:814::1fe]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (prime256v1) server-signature ECDSA (prime256v1) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D9C0B4091F; Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:50:40 +0000 (UTC) From: Jonathan Corbet To: Weijie Yuan , Daniel Pereira Cc: Shuah Khan , Randy Dunlap , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] docs: doc-guide: add a guide for translators In-Reply-To: References: <20261013003702.5824-1-danielmaraboo@gmail.com> <20261013003702.5824-2-danielmaraboo@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:50:40 -0600 Message-ID: <87o6cvrs27.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Weijie Yuan 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