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

[alad]

On 02/01/2021 20:18, Lone_Wolf via aur-general wrote:
>
> 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 The only exception is with packages that has been flagged out-of-date 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 The package base has been flagged out-of-date since 2019-07-27.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

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=AUR_submission_guidelines&diff=648050&oldid=646641

Alad