[aur-general] SGE Orphaning

[Manhong Dai]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2020, 4:05 PM Amin Vakil via aur-general <
aur-general at archlinux.org> wrote:

> I remember you have said that you use this package on your servers in
> university, so why don't you just create a new package with any
> modifications you need in PKGBUILD and even make it specified for your
> needs if you want to and use it for yourself?


> What are you trying to accomplish with being called "maintainer" of sge
> package?
>
> You can post your PKGBUILD on github/gitlab or any other git service
> online to track the modifications, being able to download it from
> anywhere, ask for other people's opinion, etc.
>

Thanks a lot for your suggestions! As I mentioned in my last comment of the
package, I already published my work on github. https://github.com/daimh/sge

I am also not trying to be a maintainer of the package. If you read my last
comment, you can see I am actually fine as long as my name and my patch's
copyright is acknowledged in a clear way. Right now, it looks like the
current maintainer made those code modification.

Actually you raised a very good question. The thing is the current
maintainer should answer it. Why does the current maintainer want to become
the maintainer while he knows every AUR rule and can easily clone one? And
why  don't a TU ask the new maintainer this question?

Now I believe it is well known that I was very innocent as I didn't receive
any notification and I sent out an email immediately after the package was
adopted; It is clear that I am capable enough to add CMake support, make
SGE run on four Major Linux distributions and wont make any simple shell
script error; And more importantly, I am very responsible for my work as
all my published work are tested.

It is really up to AUR to see how they handle this mistake caused by their
bug.

I am fine with whatever decision AUR made. However this is a good case for
any new AUR package maintainer in future. After all, unlike most of the
guys in this email list, it is not surprising that I have been sleeping in
hospital for just two months. At my age, anything could happen. :)


Best,
Manhong