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

[Ricardo J. Barberis]

Status update:

> libraries/librsync
Mail to maintainer (Lyle Sigurdson) keeps bouncing, I'll take it for now.

> system/rdiff-backup
Mail to maintainer (Paul Wisehart) keeps bouncing, I'll take it for now with 
Alex's permission :)

> network/urlgrabber
> system/acpitool
> system/whowatch
Not heard back from any of these maintainers so far.

I'll send updates to these slackbuilds with updates and taking maintenance.

El Jueves 02/01/2020 a las 18:09, Ricardo J. Barberis escribió:
> Hi!
>
> Of all those slackbuilds I have installed:
>
> development/snappy
> libraries/ftgl
> libraries/librsync
> misc/linux_logo
> network/urlgrabber
> system/acpitool
> system/rdiff-backup
> system/whowatch
>
> These two seem interesting to me:
>
> games/abuse
> games/smokinguns
>
> People already claimed libraries/ftgl, misc/linux_logo and
> system/rdiff-backup (but I might take it).
>
> I'll contact the maintainers of the rest and report back.
> I'm willing to adopt most of them if needed.
>
> Cheers,
>
> El Jueves 02/01/2020 a las 05:41, Robby Workman escribió:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > TL;DR version: if you would like to see any of the scripts on the
> > following list stay around, please step up to maintain them.
> >
> > https://slackbuilds.org/DeadSBoBuilds
> >
> > Reply with which script you want, how you want to be listed in
> > the .info file, and what email address you want listed there.
> >
> > Longer version: we're coming to terms with the fact that we
> > simply don't have the personnel or the time to maintain all of
> > the scripts here ourselves, so we (translation: B. Watson) ran
> > through a got some lists of stuff that hasn't had any recent
> > commits by their listed maintainers. The list posted above is
> > NOT all of them - it's only the first batch (we're trying to keep
> > this in bite-sized chunks). We don't have a specific timeline
> > in mind at this point, but I'm thinking that any of these not
> > claimed within a month or so will be removed from the repo.
> >
> > As always, thanks to our community for your support over the
> > years!
> >
> > -RW



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Ricardo J. Barberis
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