On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 9:16 AM Troy Dawson <tdawson@redhat.com> wrote:
All of the ones I've requested, I waited a few days to see if the
maintainer would pick it up.  And after that I asked if they would
mind if I maintained it in EPEL8.  About half of those the maintainer
was fine with me maintaining the package in EPEL8.
So, to answer your question, yes you can.

That may be overly nice!

 I'm a pretty nice guy but if they are unwilling to maintain a package in another branch you don't need their permission to do it yourself. What do you do if they say no? :) 

Thanks,
Richard