Wouldn't this push more work towards the AUR maintainers though? What actually happens when someone requests a package is to be orphaned? Can the package maintainer "un-request" it by doing something? I guess I just assumed (like the ML previously) that a bunch of people would get an email with the request in it - which nobody really wants to see! Definitely agree on the comment+checkbox idea being a bad one. As you said, everyone's problem would demand attention. Steven. On 5 July 2014 19:39, A Rojas <nqn1976list@gmail.com> wrote:
Carl Schaefer wrote:
How about adding a "needs attention" checkbox when submitting a comment that, when checked, would email the maintainer and raise an "attention requested" flag on the package display page? The maintainer could check an "AR reset" checkbox when submitting his/her own comment, which would clear the flag. Carl
This is calling for abuse. Almost everybody will consider their problem to be worth of attention. Maintainers should be subscribed to be notified of comments in their packages. If they're not, then they're not doing their job properly and requesting orphaning is justified IMO.