[Slackbuilds-users] Maintenance of orphans

[Antonio Hernández Blas]

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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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