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+THIS REPO IS DEPRECATED
+
+The main function of this plugin was to allow Gerrit admins to change
+the state of one or several patchsets of a change to 'draft' so that
+the change owner could delete the change if f.i. the change owner had
+unadvertently pushed sensetive information such as passwords.
+
+Since v2.14 change owners can delete changes so there is no use for
+this plugin and it will no longer be maintained.