[Slackbuilds-users] Author Inactivity Threshold Question Regarding Takeovers

[B. Watson]

On Sat, 29 Nov 2025, Jeremy Hansen wrote:

> I'm curious if there is a threshold of inactivity of an author where SBo admins consider an author to have orphaned their scripts, or should new potential takeovers always reach out
> to the original maintainers to see their current status?

We don't really have a one-size-fits-all policy for this.

> This specific email was due to realizing the xrdp maintainer has been inactive for 5.5 years and thinking it was reasonable for me to just take over the scripts, but I figured this
> might be something the admins might want to weigh in on if they have a specific threshold in mind.

In this case, you're free to take over the builds because the author
posted to the list that he was abandoning them. See:

http://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/2019-January/022617.html

The same goes for any of Phillip Warner's other builds:

https://slackbuilds.org/advsearch.php?stype=maint&q=pc_warner