Re: [PATCH v2] MAINTAINERS: update Traditional Chinese documentation maintainers

[Weijie Yuan <wy@wyuan.org>]

On Wed, Aug 05, 2026 at 04:10:12AM +0800, Chen-Yu Yeh wrote:
> The zh_TW translation has been unmaintained for about two years: the
> listed maintainer has been unreachable, and because no active
> maintainer was listed, get_maintainer.pl did not point contributors at
> anyone who could actually pick up a patch. My own zh_TW patch sat on
> the list for five weeks for exactly that reason.
> 
> Following the discussion in [1] and the plan in [2], list the people
> who have stepped up to carry zh_TW forward, with a shift in focus
> towards Taiwanese Mandarin terminology rather than a plain
> simplified-to-traditional conversion.
> 
> Move Hu Haowen to CREDITS and drop his personal repository links,
> which are no longer reachable. The current translation is built on his
> work, but MAINTAINERS is a list of who to contact, and the listed
> address has not answered zh_TW mail for about two years, which is what
> made zh_TW hard to contribute to in the first place.
> 
> zh_TW stays a separate entry and is maintained separately from zh_CN;
> the two may share a tree for pull requests, but the review and
> terminology work is independent.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/<20260603082531.263115-1-chenyou910331@gmail.com>/
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/<amcZ5SI3-Hzw4HkJ@wyuan.org>/

Sorry I forgot to mention this in v1, somehow I'm not sure whether we
have a strict trailer rule towards this one or not:

Do we need to change the "[1] [2]" into two "Link:" ?

I remember that some subsystems have strict rules for this. If
Jon thinks it's okay, then it's okay.

For the content of the patch:

Acked-by: Weijie Yuan <wy@wyuan.org>

> 
> Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Yeh <chenyou910331@gmail.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
>  - Drop Hu Haowen's M: entry (Jonathan Corbet); a CREDITS patch will
>    follow separately.
>  - Move the division of responsibilities below --- as suggested by
>    Weijie: it will drift over time, and a commit message is the one
>    place it cannot be updated.
>  - Collected Weijie's Acked-by.
> 
> Current split of work, for the record rather than for the git history:
> 
>   Chen-Yu Yeh   - translation and zh_TW terminology decisions
>   Weijie Yuan   - miscellaneous matters, list monitoring, status reports
>   Dongliang Mu  - review
> 
> The address in the CREDITS entry is the one Hu Haowen asked to be
> listed under in [3].
> 
> [3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/20260220160201.41149-1-srcres258@furdevs.cn/
> 
>  CREDITS     | 4 ++++
>  MAINTAINERS | 6 +++---
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
> index 91c51c14e993..3866480db6aa 100644
> --- a/CREDITS
> +++ b/CREDITS
> @@ -1817,6 +1817,10 @@ S: Am Strand 5
>  S: D-19063 Schwerin
>  S: Germany
>  
> +N: Haowen Hu
> +E: srcres258@furdevs.cn
> +D: Traditional Chinese (zh_TW) documentation translation and maintenance
> +
>  N: Jan Hubicka
>  E: hubicka@freesoft.cz
>  E: hubicka@suse.cz
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 2f9472c1a090..1f7e783023a4 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -27460,10 +27460,10 @@ F:	kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
>  F:	kernel/trace/trace_sched_wakeup.c
>  
>  TRADITIONAL CHINESE DOCUMENTATION
> -M:	Hu Haowen <2023002089@link.tyut.edu.cn>
> +M:	Chen-Yu Yeh <chenyou910331@gmail.com>
> +M:	Weijie Yuan <wy@wyuan.org>
> +M:	Dongliang Mu <dzm91@hust.edu.cn>
>  S:	Maintained
> -W:	https://github.com/srcres258/linux-doc
> -T:	git https://github.com/srcres258/linux-doc.git doc-zh-tw
>  F:	Documentation/translations/zh_TW/
>  
>  TRIGGER SOURCE
> -- 
> 2.43.0
>