[Slackbuilds-users] Being upstream and maintainer

Doogster thedoogster at gmail.com
Thu Sep 8 23:37:32 UTC 2016


Who wouldn't be grateful that a project maintainer is supporting
Slackware directly?

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Andreas Guldstrand
<andreas.guldstrand at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm both upstream and maintainer of the sbotools slackbuild, and I
> find it very convenient.
>
> It's not really "pushing" your own stuff to submit it to SBo, as
> people will only really find it if they're actually searching for it.
>
> On 9 September 2016 at 01:03, Daniel Prosser <dpross1100 at msn.com> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Recently I have switched to Awesome WM. I was looking for a tool to create an
>> application menu and came across awemenugen. However, I found it didn't work
>> so well (doesn't support icons, doesn't ignore .desktop files with
>> NoDisplay=true, creates empty categories, not to mention that you need jdk to
>> run it), so I wrote a similar tool in python addressing these issues:
>>
>> https://github.com/montagdude/awesome-appmenu
>>
>> I have a SlackBuild ready to go, but I wanted to ask if it's okay to be both
>> "upstream" and maintainer. I can guess that there are some reasons this would
>> be encouraged, but I don't want to give the appearance I am using SBo to push
>> my own stuff.
>>
>> Dan Prosser
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