Excerpts from Evangelos Foutras's message of Mon Jul 13 18:00:47 -0400 2009:
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Sven-Hendrik Haase<sh@lutzhaase.com> wrote:
I sent this request two days ago but it was obviously ignored or no TU has been available for two days, therefore I'm sending it again:
Hey,
please orphan AUR package "newton-dynamics-beta" so that I may adopt it. The original author doesn't seem to care and hasn't answered in over a week to mail and comments. Additionally, the package is out of date.
-- Sven-Hendrik
Hi,
One week isn't that long. It's possible that he's on holidays or in a situation that prevents him from updating his package and replying to e-mails.
I would suggest to wait a couple more weeks before taking any action.
Not to be contrary, but usually people just say "And the guy hasn't responed for a while" and that is enough for it to get orphaned. Additionally, this package is out of date. It's theoretically possible that he went on vacation 8 days ago, and it became out of date 7 days ago, and this request came in after that... but it doesn't seem likely. What would be nice is a TU standard for how long the person must not respond for before the package gets orphaned. Perhaps one week is too short, but it'd be nice to be consistent. -- Andrei Thorp, Developer: Xandros Corp. (http://www.xandros.com)