On 10/12/20 4:40 PM, Manhong Dai via aur-general wrote: > Dear AUR administrator, > > Can you please change me back to the maintainer of the AUR package SGE? > > This saturday I got two emails. One is user "freswa" disowned this > package, and then 19 minutes later, another email said this package was > adopted. When I got the two emails, it was already too late to adopt the > package back. I did submit a request at the AUR web interface later, but > the request was denied without any explanation. > > I am an SGE administrator for University of Michigan, and I have been > maintaining the legacy SGE C code for many years to make it work with the > latest library changes and the newer version of GCC. I published my code > modification to AUR to help other Arch Linux user, and also help myself to > maintain our own SGE cluster, which runs on both CentOS and Arch Linux. > > I really don't know why I was deprived of the maintainer status because I > am a very responsive AUR maintainer. For example, I received some good > suggestions about my other packages, I did accept those suggestions and > modified my packages accordingly. > > The serious issue is I didn't receive any notification about the package > sge before the two email notifications. It is quite scary for me, and > should be scary for all AUR package maintainers.
Did you check your spam mailbox? https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2020-October/045427.html https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2020-October/045522.html https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2020-October/045529.html > Is there anything I can do to get the maintainer status back? > > Best, > Manhong > -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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