Yeah definitely more than a few days is necessary. People may be travelling, on vacation or otherwise out of communication for a few days.
I’d suggest following the basic outline of what Dirk suggested here.
If you are interested in taking over maintenance of a package please
- If you’re unable to reach the maintainer and they’re not actively maintaining please post an issue on the repository as a proposal to take over. This post should explain why you think you’re an appropriate candidate for maintaining the package so that the community knows who you are. This is also a place for public feedback and others to potentially see that there’s an issue and step up as well.
- If there’s a consensus from that thread in the tracker and the issue can be resolved locally that’s great.
- If no-one on that thread has access to the repository and the consensus is for a new maintainer to take over please start a thread in the ROS Discourse Release Category requesting for facilitation of the adoption.