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