[Slackbuilds-users] new maintainers omitting READMEs

[David Chmelik]

On 3/23/25 7:37 PM, Willy Sudiarto Raharjo wrote:
>> Recently I saw several new SlackBuilds that omit most official 
>> README.* information from README rather than having mostly 
>> brief/non-descriptive one-liners.  I looked at some the source code 
>> which all has long README.* but for some reason all that was 
>> omitted.  When there's only brief/non-descriptive one-liners I don't 
>> know what any that software does, so had to look at source code.  If 
>> I was a SlackBuilds team member I'd reject all those and say put as 
>> much of the README.* as possible.
>
> README is just a brief description about the project being showed in 
> the SBo website, nothing more.
That's what its first line is.
> Upstream website is the official documentation, so no need to list all 
> features about the project in the README. When people need to find out 
> about what is this project all about in detail, they should go to 
> upstream rather than looking from simple README.
I doubt it; no one wants to 'go upstream' for thousands packages: just 
have sufficient READMEs, which historically normally had everything 
except Internet site.