[Slackbuilds-users] stop mirroring to github~

[Shahab Vahedi]

Jeremy,

I'd like to avoid turning this thread into something long-winded that
its usefulness would be open to interpretation. With that in mind, I
pointed a few things below to wrap this up.

August 19, 2025 Jeremy Hansen wrote:

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

That is not the intention. Jay took the courage and mentioned something
that bothered them, and I wanted to share on the mailing list that they
are not the only one. Of course the owners and maintainers are entitled
to opt for what they consider to be the right course of actions.

> 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.

That's a valid point! I wanted to check if there's a will to switch if
another alternative existed. Surely, at the beginning, that alternative
won't be as mature as the current solutions, because every new thing
has to go through infancy to reach a stable phase.

> 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.
> ...
> many people that will still mirror it to GitHub and other code repos.

That is not the point of my discussion. People can do whatever they want.
What matters to me is the way of working that SlackBuilds.Org suggests.

> If this isn't something you're ok with, that's fine, but it seems unlikely
> ...
> 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
> ...
> I hope you'll stick around, but will understand if you don't.

It takes more than this topic and 3 nudges in an email to leave. This
community has helped me in my day-to-day endeavours and I'd like to
contribute back, as long as it is wanted and allowed.

> will have one less potential maintainer...

"active" maintainer! Although, it is not as large as yours.

> 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.

Again, a very valid point! If there'll ever be a will to move something
else with the same criteria, I'd be glad to help the transition.

-Shahab