[aur-general] Reply to your request SGE

[Frederik Schwan]

On 13/10/2020 01.26, Manhong Dai via aur-general wrote:
Hi Mahong,
>   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.

The email to this list is sent in _addition_ to the email sent to you.

>   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'.

No problem :)
 
>   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.

I got your intention, but besides the AUR Request hickup we had here, there is
still a reason for the request which is the comment from 2020-08-10 in the
sge package. Besides your goodwill, you actually ignored the request there,
so the three orphan request were the right thing to do.

>   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 find any email saying that the package is marked as out-of-date.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 already marked as out of date.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.

I don't see why *some* emails arrive and others don't but in the end it doesn't matter.
It's not our responsibility that you read the mail - we have no control over that process.

I agree that this may feel unfair to you, but otoh we can't take back decisions that are backed
by rules. If you want to improve our orphaning process, feel free to join us on IRC - we always need
help developing our own tools :)

>   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?

You may ask the new maintainer to become co-maintainer, but as stated above, we won't take
back the decision.

Best regards,
Frederik

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