[Slackbuilds-users] Unmaintained builds - want any of these?

[sborg63]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the feedback and the script; was easy to update; have a good
new year!

Rob

On Wed, 08 Jan 2020 07:36:55 +0100
Michael Filz <m.filz at ranira.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> that's fine with me. I put those projects up for grabs as I didn't
> have the time nor means to support them any more. I'm glad they have
> found a new home.
> 
> Regards,
> Michael
> 
> On 2020-01-03 19:05, sborg63 wrote:
> > Hi Michael,
> > 
> > If you do not agree with below developments, please let me know and 
> > it's
> > all yours again...
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Rob
> > 
> > Begin forwarded message:
> > 
> > Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2020 17:54:44 +0000
> > From: sborg63 <sborg63 at disroot.org>
> > To: slackbuilds-users-request at slackbuilds.org
> > Subject: Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Unmaintained builds - want any of
> > these?
> > 
> > 
> > OK, I'll take Xournal and will submit an upgrade.
> > gcalctool has already found another home ;-)
> > 
> > On Thu, 02 Jan 2020 22:42:33 +0000
> > slackbuilds-users-request at slackbuilds.org wrote:
> >   
> >> From: Robby Workman <rworkman at slackbuilds.org>
> >> To: slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org
> >> Subject: Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Unmaintained builds - want any of
> >> 	these?
> >> Message-ID: <20200102163802.0051da99 at home.rlworkman.net>
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> >> 
> >> On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 17:11:11 +0000
> >> sborg63 <sborg63 at disroot.org> wrote:
> >>   
> >> >
> >> > Although 'office/xournal' seems superseded by xournalff (the
> >> > latter is based on the former and developed by another team); it
> >> > had a version upgrade to 0.4.8 in 2016/17 ( it just needs
> >> > changing the version no's in the SlackBuild and info to compile;
> >> > latest source archive is xournal-0.4.8.2016.tar.gz). Xournal is
> >> > simpler and with less/other dependencies than xournalff.  
> >> 
> >> 
> >> For the sake of clarity, it's not that they're necessarily in
> >> an unmaintained state *upstream* -- it's that *we* (SBo) do not
> >> have an active maintainer for the build script.
> >> 
> >> If you use gcalctool and/or xournal, those would be good
> >> candidates for you to assume maintainership :-)
> >> 
> >> -RW