[aur-general] Why are orphan requests accepted immediately although wiki says there's a 2 weeks wating period ?

[Lone_Wolf]

On 02-01-2021 19:51, Morten Linderud via aur-general wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 07:46:04PM +0100, Lone_Wolf via aur-general wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Recently I received a notification message that a package I was
>> co-maintainer from had changed ownership.
>>
>> I looked at aur-requests archive and saw the orphan request was filed on Sat
>> Jan 2 09:42:38 UTC 2021.
>>
>> The request was accepted on Sat Jan 2 09:42:38 UTC 2021 or within a second !
>>
>>
>> I checked
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_submission_guidelines#Requests
>> which states
>>
>>> Orphan requests will be granted after two weeks if the current
>>> maintainer did not react.
>> The immediate acceptance has made it impossible for the maintainer /
>> co-maintainers to respond.
>>
>>
>> Is the wiki incorrect wrt policy for orphan requests ?
>>
>> If so, where is the correct policy described ?
> Yo,
>
> The only exception is with packages that has been flagged out-of-date for
> months, which was the case here if this is about openrc.
>
>> The package base has been flagged out-of-date since 2019-07-27.
> So with half a year with an OOD flag and no actions the orphan request gets
> automatically accepted.
>
(yes, package was openrc)

If that's the policy, then the immediate orphaning was correct.

Could TUs add this exception to the wiki ?

LW