[aur-general] This Saturday I was deprived the maintainer status of AUR package SGE without reason

Manhong Dai daimh at umich.edu
Mon Oct 12 20:40:58 UTC 2020


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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