You could have posted a comment, or even flagged. Based on date of most recent comment and commit, the maintainer is receiving and responding to notifications.
While some maintainers dislike flags, they go away when the package is updated. I would prefer flags over orphan request. On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 3:51 PM <not...@aur.archlinux.org> wrote: > > vitaliikuzhdin [1] filed an orphan request for mpg321 [2]: > > The build is currently failing, and while the maintainer is active, I > couldn't send my fixed PKGBUILD and patches via email due to a server > issue on their end. I am submitting this request in hopes that the > notification from `aur-requests@lists.archlinux.org` will reach them. > If not, I am also available to maintain the package. > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/vitaliikuzhdin/ > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/mpg321/
