On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 10:00 (+0700), Willy Sudiarto Raharjo wrote: >> Currently fonts are put under category system, they mix with other >> system tools. Would it be better to have a separate category (fonts) >> for them?
> This is my personal opinion and do not express other admin's opinion > i think having more categories doesn't really give benefits to this project > besides cosmetic values. Willy, speaking as someone who does *not* know all the offerings inside out, I found the list of items suggested for "slackware tools" (or whatever it would hypothetically be called) useful. > It just adds more work moving scripts around during development cycle, > adding new categories in the database, web forms, etc. > Since we have search form in our website, i wonder how many people would go > through each categories when looking for some scripts instead of just using > the search form? I would. I'm not sure what search term would list all the slackware-specific packages. (Maybe everyone else knows how to do that, but I don't.) > During development cycle (which usually started when Pat declared Alpha or > Beta version of Slackware-Current), admins will be busy verifying each > scripts in the repo to make sure it builds fine against slackware-current, > which will be a moving target since Pat usually have a long period of > testing before he declares stable release. > Some of these scripts have been checked and fixed by Ponce so it gives a > headstart for us, but we have over 9k scripts (per December 2023) and it's > growing each week. There are tons of work to make sure the new repo is ready > when next Slackware is released and we are targeting for same-day release > (if it's possible). I realize that the SBo volunteers do a lot of work for the Slackware community, and I would not want to unduly add to the workload. Having said that, would the work load be acceptable if (a) you created the categories (fonts and Slackware-specific), and (b) whenever a maintainer puts in a new version, it goes into the new category. Cheers. Jim _______________________________________________ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org https://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users Archives - https://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ FAQ - https://slackbuilds.org/faq/