Am Dienstag, 9. Juni 2015, 11:53:53 schrieb Ido Rosen:
It seems perfectly reasonable to have multiple people maintain a package over time this way. Maybe we just need better support for this style of non-maintainership that isn't quite "orphaned"? Support for multiple maintainers/collaborators like on GitHub repos? (Outright owning a package in AUR prevents anyone else from updating it.)
According to the AUR4 webui it is possible to specify co-maintainers for a pkg (if you own a pkg, you'll find the button next to the disown button). But I actually like the idea of using git for non-co-maintainers to contribute: I assume that only the master branch is used for the actual pkg - so if we allow any user to update every branch (but the master branch) of every package, we could have something similar to pull requests. A user could just submit his patch into a new branch and the actual maintainer can simply merge it into master.