[Slackbuilds-users] Author Inactivity Threshold Question Regarding Takeovers

Glenn glimrick at epilitimus.com
Sun Nov 30 16:45:03 UTC 2025


On 11/29/25 22:42, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
> Personally, I think 1 year of inactivity of the author is reasonable, 
> however, I do realize we have more than half the maintainers only 
> maintaining a single script, and some of those programs might have 
> years between their releases, which their maintainer is tracking.

I've read the official reply but this spawned a thought that might be 
useful in the general case. How about basing it on number of releases? 
If the package authors have made N releases with no update from the 
maintainer, and the maintainer doesn't respond to queries within a 
reasonable time period then it is up for grabs.



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