[aur-general] Package orphaning policy improvement - RFC

[Nowaker]

Hey,

Currently one has to contact the maintainer and wait 2 weeks before 
reaching a TU on the ML to take over the package. I think this is 
totally OK when the maintainer really maintains the package, e.g. has 
generally frequent updates, responds to the comments, etc.

However, this is an overhead when it's obvious a package is no longer 
maintained. For example, those marked out-of-date for more than 3 
months, or those that have numbers of comments requesting update with no 
single response from the maintainer.

It includes a situation when a maintainer is otherwise active on AUR, 
e.g. they update their other packages. The fact is they don't upgrade 
the very one package that people are interested in - otherwise a package 
wouldn't have been marked out-of-date in the first place.

What do you think about auto-orhpaning packages that stay marked 
out-of-date for more than, say, 3 months? Done automatically by AUR, 
with no request on ML.

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Kind regards,
Damian Nowak
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