> Second, uploading something to AUR4 then immediately orphaning it is > stupid. Why not just hold onto it for a while and look for co-maintainers, > or a new maintainer? By orphaning, you just became the "thinned" part of > the herd.
Well, if it's orphaned another potential maintainer who comes across it, might be more likely to pick it up. If it's *not* orphaned, they'd have to contact you first to ask you to transfer ownership or add them as co-maintainer - and even though that's not a *big* social cost, it is one nonetheless, and some potential maintainers will just not bother. I.e. it's a matter of making things run more smoothly/conveniently. IMO orphaned packages should *only* be deleted after an ample grace period (for example, when they've been orphaned for at least 4 months or so).
