[aur-general] About orphaning all packages of inactive users

Jonathan Steel mail at jsteel.org
Sat Jul 20 03:39:29 EDT 2013


On Sat 20 Jul 2013 at 07:49, Frederik "Freso" S. Olesen wrote:
> Den 19-07-2013 22:45, Jonathan Steel skrev:
> >[...]  If in doubt, an email to
> >them won't hurt, but in my experience this has always lead to disowning them.
> 
> FWIW, I've sent e-mails to maintainers that replied back and got
> around to updating their packages. You likely don't hear about
> these, as the requests (seldomly, anyway) come to this mailing list.
> It's true that I have more often not gotten a reply, but it does
> happen that I have.

We are talking about users who have been inactive for a more than a year,
especially ones that have ignored flags/comments for a long time; have users
really come back after a year or so just because you emailed them?

-- 
Jonathan Steel
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