Describe the issue
appstream is a stalled EPEL package.
Per the EPEL stalled package policy - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies#Stalled_EPEL_Requests - I have contacted the maintainer, twice, and waited the appropriate amount of time.
I am requesting tdawson commit permissions so that I might branch and build this package in epel8 and epel8-next.

When do you need this? (YYYY/MM/DD)
2021/07/19

When is this no longer needed or useful? (YYYY/MM/DD)
N/A

If we cannot complete your request, what is the impact?
We would not be able to build several packages for the KDE Plasma desktop for epel8-next and when RHEL 8.5 comes out, epel8.