October 2020 - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

Re: [aur-general] SGE
by Manhong Dai 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

Hi Sauyon, Thank you! I learned! Best, Manhong

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[aur-general] Reply to your request SGE
by Manhong Dai 13 Oct '20

13 Oct '20

Hi Freswa, Somebody pointed me to your reply in the list. I didn't even know that the request in the AUR request system was sent to this email list, nor I know such an email list existed. I agree that you think you already gave enough explanation from your point of view. However, please think about it in my shoes, I I didn't even know such an email list existed before I sent the last request through the AUR website, and I just registered it about an hour ago to appeal. If you think I spammed this request system, I am sorry for it. But from my point of view, I have been extremely patient and following the ladder to appeal, because I didn't get any email or any response on the AUR website, which just says one word 'rejected'. I am also a very responsive package maintainer. You can check out my other packages, as long as other people submitted a suggestion, I responded the second day, and accepted their suggestions. In terms of the package SGE, I just searched my email again but didn't find any email saying that the package is marked as out-of-date. It will be hard to believe that a package that was submitted just four months ago is already marked as out of date. It worked on a cluster of all our Arch Linux nodes four months ago, and it is still working on the latest Arch Linux. It worked on both new node installation and old node upgrade . I would never have thought to check the AUR website to see if I am still a maintainer. All I got was the two emails, one saying it was disowned, the other saying it was adopted, and they are 19 minutes apart. Now I understand that each AUR package maintainer should join the email list and keep watching it. Given this special circumstance, can I get the maintainer status for the package SGE back? Best, Manhong

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[aur-general] This Saturday I was deprived the maintainer status of AUR package SGE without reason
by Manhong Dai 12 Oct '20

12 Oct '20

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. Is there anything I can do to get the maintainer status back? Best, Manhong

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[aur-general] Wrong E-Mail Adress at registration used
by Matthias 'garionion' Detsch 10 Oct '20

10 Oct '20

Hi there, sorry to bother you with my stupid mistake. As I wanted to register myself for the AUR a while ago, I misspelled my E-Mail Adress. But I really really want to use my "normal" nickname. As I used a wron E-Mail, I never got a confirmation mail, but the username is still "reserved" (one could consider this as a bug), so I cannot register myself again, with "my" username and the correct EMail Adress. Would it be possible, that someone could please unlock "my" username? Best Regards, garionion

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