[Slackbuilds-users] Maintenance of orphans

[King Beowulf]

I can live with the "last" maintainer putting in "orphaned" in the
.info however, "most of us" should be corrected to "some of us" for
the mirrors.  I don't maintain such a mirror since a lot of the
software doesn't interest me (and just lost a 160Gb Sata with my
slackware stuff too so space is at a premium).  I was thinking of a
simple page on SBo for a quick review instead of having to search
through the mail list and all of the info files.



On 11/15/10, Matthew Fillpot <mfilpot at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hba, changing the maintainers name to orphaned does sound like a simpler
> solution since most of us keep local mirrors. I like your recommendations
> and eagerly await some input from the admins.
>
> - sent from my nexus one
> On Nov 15, 2010 10:45 AM, "Antonio Hernández Blas"
> <hba.nihilismus at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 8:32 AM, King Beowulf <kingbeowulf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>> An orphan list on SBo would be grand; maybe a transfer of maintainer
>>> section as well. A form where people can add to a wish list might also
>>> be helpful.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/14/10, Matthew Fillpot <mfilpot at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> With the recent rash of maintainers giving up their builds, I would
>>>> like to request for the3 admins to add a list on the website of
>>>> orphaned slackbuild scripts. This will make it easier for current and
>>>> potential maintainers to view a complete list of available builds that
>>>> need to switch hands.
>>>> I currently have a list of all orphaned builds that were announced in
>>>> the last month and would gladly pass it onto the site to start the
>>>> list.
>>>>
>>>> In addition would it be possible to add a section to the site were
>>>> people can request for builds to be made of known apps, so the
>>>> maintainers can also review that list for future projects?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> -Thank You,
>>>> -Matthew Fillpot
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>>>
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>>
>> IMHO theres no need for an "orphaned slackbuild scripts list", with a
>> "simple solution" as the creation of another mail list (maybe
>> SlackBuilds-maintainers), so any maintainer that want to drop out the
>> maintainership of his/her slackbuild should send a message indicating
>> which slackbuild would be orphaned but also send an update to reflect
>> this, in *.info file should be 'MAINTAINER="ORPHAN"' and
>> 'EMAIL=ORPHANED"'. The Subject of the email would be "[MAINTAINERSHIP]
>> SECTION/PKGNAM", for example "[MAINTAINERSHIP] system/qemu-kvm"... i
>> hope there´s nobody who uses "orphaned" as its nickname :)
>>
>> The same situation arise when someone want to maintain an orphaned
>> slackbuild, responds to the mail of the original maintainer indicating
>> that he/she want to take care of the slackbuild and also should send
>> an update with the *.info file updated with his/her own data in
>> MAINTAINER/EMAIL variables.
>>
>> About the "request for builds", you can use this same mail list, but
>> with a Subject to something like "[REQUEST] PKGNAM HOMEPAGE", for
>> example "[REQUEST] libmodplug modplug-xmms.sourceforge.net". There´s a
>> chance that someone else already has the SlackBuild, but maybe it need
>> more testing... i don´t know.
>>
>> Sure, i know that you could just use this same mail list for
>> maintainer and users (after all its just the Subject what change), but
>> i thing its better organized our communication in this way.
>>
>> In few words, there´s a lack of communication in this community....
>>
>> --
>> - hba
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