I think it makes the most sense to designate the person currently maintaining 
the package/PKGBUILD as the maintainer irrespective of that person's status in 
the community or the destination of the package/PKGBUILD. It immediately 
indicates to anyone looking at the PKGBUILD whom they should contact about 
updating it.

I think previous maintainers should be listed as contributors along with anyone 
who's contributed signficant changes to the package.

Telling people that they can't claim to be a "maintainer" of a package because 
they're not a dev or TU comes across the wrong way too. Just because the binary 
isn't hosted in the AUR doesn't mean that the work of maintaining a package 
(updating, responding to comments, etc) is any different than if the binary 
were uploaded.

Just my 2¢.

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