[aur-general] Question regarding orphan requests

[tobi at tobi-wan-kenobi.at]

Quoting Filipe Laíns via aur-general <aur-general at archlinux.org>:

> On Thu, 2020-06-25 at 07:57 +0200, Tobias Witek wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I filed an orphan request for a package (bumblebee-status-git) 3
>> weeks ago - I am the upstream developer and would be willing to take
>> over the package ( I already maintain the bumblebee-status AUR)
>>
>> Unfortunately, I have been unable to establish contact with glaxxx,
>> the current maintainer, and the package is currently broken.
>>
>> How long does it typically take for an orphan request to be
>> processed?
>>
>> I am aware that you all are busy and the project is one of the
>> tiniest on AUR, so I do my best to be patient and I am grateful for
>> the great work you all are doing!
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> tobi-wan
>
> Hi Tobias,
>
> Orphan requests get locked for 2 weeks to give time for the current
> maintainer to respond, after that they need to be manually approved by
> a TU. Approving requests is a manual action, and as such depends on the
> free time of the team members, so unfortunately from time to time the
> pending requests clog up.
>
> I have approved your request.

Thanks a lot, I appreciate that a lot!

>
> Cheers,
> Filipe Laíns