From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta0.migadu.com (out-240.mta0.migadu.com [91.218.175.240]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7E48130BBBF for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:03:27 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=91.218.175.240 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1792073010; cv=none; b=fNwwqaKlsEHXuLfOxbTAAQVwZM9g8ojvJ5C97mEO8Af+YVNKnh+obbr43s5kSxdkeZXr9xaDk4+sbUz6xC8Neu6RiJ14XzyuEGFPcZJX53CRUK0o9zRqXu3kWVVAu3d2ZSMgE+fdrj2x9RmzPt3HvMosUb/ko8W2NKhlkSfaw3s= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1792073010; c=relaxed/simple; bh=kD35mh/XAMFfuSXQzIr95gIjKd15P5wZkU96wBaod5I=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=KP3udnzWgIP+yivAQLmr+3scFcvQ/bm5uV8Mg05W7dzbN3knFWJiV0hkyhRMAqB7QwaHP306FxPRhhTSz7uDVl4hMmtpRWmoXKHleQLuzavXt/IsODRfdUZwaEjmCHBweuj/T3PLTIktAGWKWrgKtrYWwBsjhbLhBrNYfnYVjsc= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=wyuan.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=wyuan.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=wyuan.org header.i=@wyuan.org header.b=QaFB6tfi; arc=none smtp.client-ip=91.218.175.240 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=wyuan.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=wyuan.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=wyuan.org header.i=@wyuan.org header.b="QaFB6tfi" X-Envelope-To: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha256; bh=kD35mh/XAMFfuSXQzIr95gIjKd15P5wZkU96wBaod5I=; c=simple/simple; d=wyuan.org; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=key1; t=1792073005; v=1; x=1792677805; b=QaFB6tfiwSNZZhIWwbp6KOMxA0Wt9Yf4pJcqH8DexJetNSXtvMgGzoOMNWU8B6csqQVW1Tqy tpXWNtYwep7luQdwoU+FnXdLZ2vrNePPhBX+KY6iMHjg1yg+O9HxaZwvx/MHH9DT6Wni5XjiXlH mmtt4a+tdjaIte/oEPuKQEgeB4NI+F6xk+xgwI1hOrwrTU1C4paNILY4QGNPgBXkjxr7thpVmud gebUL7HmioLVkEr6Tw9IdnIpMslIx4nevPbNGex+4dfeb7+/l0uv0eO8tGmNDK+a14ieV3SIEVe ij12+cwB2II5jxpS0qWEC68V04Vxl/EAPJqvspSNYy7PA== X-Envelope-To: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Received: by smtp.migadu.com with ESMTPS id ddd49aec7f51196c; Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:03:25 +0000 X-Mizu-Trace-ID: ddd49aec7f51196c X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_OUT Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2026 22:03:17 +0800 From: Weijie Yuan To: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Daniel Pereira , Shuah Khan , Randy Dunlap , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alex Shi , Yanteng Si , Dongliang Mu Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] docs: doc-guide: add a guide for translators Message-ID: References: <20261013003702.5824-1-danielmaraboo@gmail.com> <20261013003702.5824-2-danielmaraboo@gmail.com> <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; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87o6cvrs27.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> +cc zh_CN maintainers On 2026-10-15 07:50:40 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > 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. Yes, very reasonable. I haven't found out the reason why we had the "Translator" field at the very beginning. I guess it might be something like translating a book. Usually, the translator's name would be written below/near the original author's name on the title page. (?) However, the difference is that we have commit logs, so I totally agree. Then perhaps we could also clean up zh_CN later. Thanks!