[aur-general] Reply to your request SGE

[Manhong Dai]

The comments were sent to me indeed.  However, I didn't receive any email
notification about the package is marked as out of state.

The comment is just a simple 'bad taste' without any link or other advice.
The commenter is not a trusted user either and thus I won't simply accept
the pull request without going through the change one by one to be on the
safe side. I always compile and test the package during our cluster
upgrade, which happens once or twice per year. After all, the package works.

Now, let me repeat it again, I didn't receive any notification when the
package was marked as out of state.  I just searched my email again.

You can see I recently updated my other three packages per other people's
suggestions. I acted very quickly, if the comment is reasonable and not as
simple as a 'bad taste'. If other users are not satisfied with my package,
they can always fork and put a link under my package, instead of 'robbing'.

Now , all things considered, can I get the maintainer status back?


Best,
Manhong
Sent from phone

On Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 7:43 PM Doug Newgard <scimmia at archlinux.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 19:26:07 -0400
> Manhong Dai via aur-general <aur-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> > 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 find any email saying that the package is marked as out-of-date.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
>
> And the comment left on the AUR page, that you would have gotten a
> notification
> from? They were right, the PKGBUILD was in absolutely terrible shape.
> Nobody
> said it was out of date, just that it very, very badly needed fixing and
> you
> were ignoring it. You would have then gotten notifications on Sept 19th
> when it
> was first requested that it be orphaned, on Oct 6th when a second request
> the
> it be orphaned was filed, and on Oct 10th when it was requested for a 3rd
> time
> that it be orphaned.
>
> Note that none of those notifications require you to be subscribed to any
> mailing list. They were sent directly to you.
>
> With the state of the PKGBUILD and no response, removing the maintainer
> was the
> right thing to do, without question.
>