On 1 May 2018 at 07:53, Eli Schwartz via aur-general <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/01/2018 02:38 AM, Morgan Adamiec via aur-general wrote: >> Hi, a week ago i submitted an orphan request for Discord-PTB >> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/discord-ptb/. It finally got >> accepted but the co-maintainer 'discordapp' got set as the maintainer >> so I can not adopt this package. >> >> As far as I know 'discordapp' is an account owned by one of the >> Discord devs, I believe it's just there in case they need it, the >> account does not seem to actively do anything nor reply to comments. > > If the future maintainer wishes give them co-maintainer access, that is > their prerogative of course, but this hardly seems like the way > maintainership should be handled. o_O > > Normally comaintainers are elevated because there is some solid reason > they wanted to be one in the first place. > >> I would hate to wait another week for an orphan request to go through, >> is there a way this could be bypassed as I did just wait a week? > > Done, all three of them were disowned by the previous maintainer, so > I've gone the next step and removed this "official account" thing. I'm > not sure I'm terribly fond of the whole idea, it reminds me far too much > of squatting. :( > > -- > Eli Schwartz > Bug Wrangler and Trusted User >
Saw the package get disowned right after I sent the email, thanks for the speedy action. I'll leave discordapp off of the co-maintainer list for now then, they didn't seem to use it anyway. If they wanna work something out in the future that you're more happy with I'll add them back.
