[Slackbuilds-users] stop mirroring to github~

[Jeremy Hansen]

With respect, you're trying to make SBo into something it never purported
to be.

We saw similar issues with anti- pulseaudio or systemd people who thought
Slackware was also anti, simply because they didn't have it in the distro
at the time they were looking for anti distros. Then pulseaudio was added
in the development of 14.2 and then some excerpts of systemd were added in
the development of 15.0 (logind and maybe others?). Many complaints ensued
on LQ.

Turns out Slackware just preferred to stay away until swimming upstream
became unworth the effort. People then had to realize that Slackware's
philosophies may not match their own and figure out if they were willing to
still use it. Some left, some stayed. It's the nature of the beast.

As of right now, SBo chooses to mirror their repo on GitHub and GitLab to
make it easier for maintainers to submit updates and to manage build
testing. SBo itself is free to download and distribute, which means users
might then upload it to GitHub themselves, even if SBo stops using it.
Licenses for scripts are required to be open source and allow modification
and distribution, so as soon as a maintainer submits it to SBo, it's out
there legally for anyone to review, including LLMs.

If this isn't something you're ok with, that's fine, but it seems unlikely
SBo admins will lock down the repo, and even if they do, there are likely
many people that will still mirror it to GitHub and other code repos. If
that means you're not willing to maintain packages, then the community will
have one less potential maintainer... but there might be many more that are
willing to maintain with the ability to use GitHub for PRs. It's how I
started, and I now maintain almost 200 packages.

I'm glad they offer GitHub and have utilized the CI and @sbo-bot to build
scripts before approval and allow mass builds to check for broken scripts.
It's massively improved the stability of SBo, and I imagine it's greatly
simplified the efforts of the admins to test all the scripts.

I hope you'll stick around, but will understand if you don't. Best of luck
in whatever way forward you decide!

Jeremy

On Mon, Aug 18, 2025, 11:04 PM Shahab Vahedi via SlackBuilds-users <
slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org> wrote:

> Aug 19, 2025, Alexander Grotewohl:
>
> > 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.
>
> With respects, that's the sort of sensationalism I was referring to
> earlier. I did not get to know about Slackware or Slackbuils.org because it
> appeared on Google's super cool ranking.
>
>
> -Shahab
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