[aur-general] Inactive users
Hi, What is the current policy on dealing with inactive users? In the case of the zephyr package, the owner has not been active since 2011-07-18 and had several flagged packages, many of which had been flagged for quite a while. I orphaned all of the flagged packages but in such cases should we just preemptively disown all of the user's packages? I have written a script to handle such cases [1]. Of course, if there were some official policy here then this might be better handled server-side, but for now this solution is convenient. Incidentally, aurploader contains a full python module since the last release with support for automating most AUR interaction (disowning, merging, etc.). In combination with python3-aur it is quite versatile. Regards, Xyne [1] http://xyne.archlinux.ca/scripts/aur/orphanizer
On 09/14/2012 04:00 PM, Xyne wrote:
I orphaned all of the flagged packages but in such cases should we just preemptively disown all of the user's packages?
This is what I would do -- eventually I'd try to contact the user and give some time to react. If there will be no answer, it's obvious that packages should be orphaned. -- Bartłomiej Piotrowski Arch Linux Trusted User http://archlinux.org/
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