On Thursday 02 December 2010 12:56:37 Ray Rashif wrote: > On 2 December 2010 20:48, Peter Lewis <[email protected]> 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 out-of-date for so long.
Yeah agreed. I just think that as a general rule we need to allow for more than a week from the first notification. But as you say, if the package has long been marked out-of-date, then that's obviously what the whole flagging system is for! :-) Pete.
