Contacting the maintainer before filing a request is a good practice, whether you ask his package to be orphaned, deleted or merged into another. ;)
Well... when I see something freaky on the AUR, I don't usually bother consulting the maintainer before filing a deletion request. Their opinion doesn't matter when they violate the AUR guidelines. :) Anyway, maintainers get CC'ed so it's all good.
That’s OK. I’ll monitor the situation with firefox-aurora/firefox-dev/firefox-developer from now on, and will wait for things to be settled before accepting the current remaining requests.
Not sure why you need to wait. :) firefox-developer was uploaded I guess when Mozilla stopped officially calling it "aurora"? So their respective maintainers should figure it out between them, while we spectators assume good faith. However, firefox-dev is a straight-up rules violation serving no purpose. I don't see much good faith there, and even ignorance of the rules doesn't justify keeping it up. It also has highly suspicious undertones of "hostile takeover", although I am not sure why anyone might care that much... the deletion request for firefox-developer kinda triggered me. -- Eli Schwartz