[Slackbuilds-users] nginx maintenance

[B. Watson]

On Sat, 31 Aug 2024, Eugen Wissner wrote:

> Larry Hajali (the maintainer) doesn't seem to be active anymore. I've
> found a commit message from 2022 about his other script,
> multimedia/kodi (commit bce52521d6):
>
>> Larry has not responded to several email messages and it seems no
>> others have been able to reach him as well.

I've got Larry on my private list of ex-maintainers. It probably
should become a public list at some point... will post it to the list
Real Soon Now.

> So I suppose I can take over the maintainence of nginx?

Yes, please do.

> Probably his other scripts need care too. The list is pretty long.

Maintainers: you should look at Larry's scripts, and see if any of
*your* builds depend on them. If so, you should consider taking over
the dependencies for your stuff, to avoid them being removed (and your
build, too, if its dependencies are removed...)

I would estimate that about 25% of our repo is effectively
unmaintained.  We really need folks to step up and take over anything
they need or are interested in.