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 <scim...@archlinux.org> wrote: > On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 19:26:07 -0400 > Manhong Dai via aur-general <aur-general@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 find any email saying that the package is marked as out-of-date.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 already marked as out of date.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. >