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

[Eli Schwartz]

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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