[Slackbuilds-users] Author Inactivity Threshold Question Regarding Takeovers

[B. Watson]

On Sun, 30 Nov 2025, Glenn wrote:

> As  for waiting for a response from the maintainer, I added that in case the maintainer was just about to make an update. My approach would be the person wanting to take over would
> do the research, checking how many unsupported releases there have been and reaching out to the current maintainer. If they don't hear back in say a week, or the message bounces,
> then they pass their findings along to the admins who make the decision.

This is pretty much what already happens.

> I admit it would take a bit of time but it would also prevent some hard feelings from toes getting stepped on.

In case anyone's toes do get stepped on... we can always give the
build back to the old maintainer, if he complains. That's happened a
few times already.