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However, this is an overhead when it's obvious a package is no longer
maintained. For example, those marked out-of-date for more than 3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wouldn't have been marked out-of-date in the first place.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out-of-date for more than, say, 3 months?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
StratusHost
www.AtlasHost.eu
