Re: [PATCH 1/2] docs/zh_TW: update personal information

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Haowen Hu <srcres258@furdevs.cn> writes:

>> And two of the handful of changes you made that year were ... changing
>> your email address in all of those files.
>
> Sure. Just want to keep things synced as exactly as possible, and so
> does the patch mean to be.

I will repeat what I was saying: all of those continually changing email
addresses are a maintenance pain.  I would really rather see a patch
removing them, leaving credit at the top-level index.rst, as I said
before. 

>> I don't think that all this churn this is reasonable, especially for a
>> translation that appears to have been abandoned.  So I don't really want
>> to apply this.  I would suggest you send me an alternative *removing*
>> that information from those files, optionally leaving a credit for past
>> work done in Documentation/translations/zh_TW/index.rst.  The question
>> of when this translation becomes too old and should just be removed can
>> be left for another day.
>
> OK, so do you mean this translation (zh_TW) is planned to be removed
> from the entire documentation?

There are no such plans at the moment, no.  But there does come a point
where a translation is so obsolete that it does more harm than good and
there are no prospects of it being updated.  

> I'm working on the update job currently
> for the translation to become modern, and you can have a review of my
> rework when this is done and the patch is sent. I really want these
> texts to be kept in the kernel documentation and they are able to
> receive a thorough update to be suitable toward the kernel nowadays.

If you are working to update them, I am glad to hear that.  Please do it
incrementally, rather than with one big patch, though.  When you have a
file updated, go ahead and send your work.

Thanks,

jon