[aur-general] orphan request

Ray Rashif schiv at archlinux.org
Thu Dec 2 13:56:37 CET 2010


On 2 December 2010 20:48, Peter Lewis <plewis at aur.archlinux.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 02 December 2010 12:07:59 Kaiting Chen wrote:
>> As a general policy we wait a week before
>> orphaning after you have contacted the maintainer expressing your desire to
>> adopt to package.
>
> At least two weeks would be my minimum. It's perfectly possible that someone
> is just on holiday / vacation. It wouldn't be nice to come back and find all
> your lovingly crafted PKGBUILDs taken off your hands!

No need. A week is sufficient for packages that have been marked
out-of-date for so long.

The maintainer is a TU so I've CC'ed him. He can orphan it for you if
he doesn't foresee himself maintaining it.


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