[Slackbuilds-users] nginx maintenance

[David Chmelik]

On 9/1/24 12:43 AM, B. Watson wrote:
> Almost. The next step is to actually submit an update, even if all you
> change is MAINTAINER (your name) and EMAIL, in the .info file.
>
> Quite a few times over the years, someone has announced they were
> taking over a build, and then never got around to updating it with
> their information, and it just got forgotten about.
>
> Maybe I should write a new section for the FAQ. There doesn't seem to
> be anything there about taking over a build.

Please do so!  Once a friend took over one of my SlackBuilds but wanted 
to leave my name & information as the maintainer, and not add his, due 
to SlackBuilds being copyrighted, and did so for at least one update.  
After I asked and the original creator finally agreed to switch to WTFPL 
my friend was finally willing to update to list his information.  Among 
FLOSS programmers, I doubt he's the only person that dislikes copyright, 
so we need to clarify if it's not allowed to leave the burden on the old 
maintainer as the official contact person and not have people even know 
you took it over.