Looking for reasons why mod_security pkg was orphaned/retired

[Athmane Madjoudj]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:01:05AM +0200, Daniel Kopecek wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 04/10/2013 09:20 PM, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm (co-/) maintainer of mod_security, I noticed that the owner
> >orphaned
> >it and then retired it, obviously I can't take it over. [1]
> >
> >I'm kindly asking for the reasons ?
> >
> >I'm maintaining this package (on fedora and epel) lately so it safe
> >to assign to me if it's possible.
> >
> >CCing the former and new owners.
> >
> >[1] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/mod_security
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >-- Athmane
> 
> that was a mistake, I've clicked the wrong button. It's funny how
> easy it is to retire a package if you don't event own it :]
> I hope I'll manage to unretire it by today, I don't see any button
> for that in the pkgdb web UI.
> 
> Dan K.
> 

Apparently you'll need to do a SCM admin request

>From link [1]:

 Package Change Requests for existing packages

 To request:
 
 additional branches for an existing package
 
 unretirement of a package on specific branches
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 other special git requests, etc 


[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_SCM_admin_requests#Package_Change_Requests_for_existing_packages


Thanks.

-- Athmane