[Slackbuilds-users] stop mirroring to github~

[Alexander Grotewohl]

All the articles linked include sentiment I simply don't care about.

Not to denigrate any of the Slackbuild maintainers but a huge majority of their scripts behave incredibly similar. I appreciate the verification work dearly but I'm guessing the coding work is only time consuming (or frustrating) but not something people are losing money over. ("AI theft")

Github isn't stealing anything from us. If anything, they're a high ranking search result that points people toward Slackbuilds and Slackware use in general.

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From: SlackBuilds-users <slackbuilds-users-bounces at slackbuilds.org> on behalf of Shahab Vahedi via SlackBuilds-users <slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2025 1:05:36 AM
To: SlackBuilds.org Users List <slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org>
Cc: Shahab Vahedi <list+sbo at vahedi.org>
Subject: Re: [Slackbuilds-users] stop mirroring to github~

I don't buy into this "it's happening eveywhere, so sit back and let go!" sort of attitude. Even before shit hitting the fans like this with the copilot, GitHub was not a good choice for mirroring, especially after it was acquired [1][2][3].

I switched to Slackware years ago, because I found its user base with a healthy attitude:  Having its own values rather than following the fads and succumbing to sensationalism. I liked, and still like, the distro, but stayed for the people. Specifically, for people on this mailing list.

But seriously, why is GitHub used? Is it because that it's gratis or have some sort of CI? I for one am willing to donate and/or contribute for setting up a CI on a federated server. Although I don't have much experience in that area yet.

-Shahab

[1]
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/jun/30/give-up-github-launch/

[2]
https://unixdigest.com/articles/important-open-source-projects-should-not-use-github.html

[3]
https://sanctum.geek.nz/why-not-github.html
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