I am trying to retire xchat [1] using "fedpkg retire". It is failing after pushing the changes to Git, and asking me for my FAS password.

[rishi@kolache xchat]$ fedpkg --verbose retire "XChat is dead. The recommended replacement is HexChat."
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/fedora/client/bodhi.py:48: DeprecationWarning: fedora.client.bodhi has been deprecated. Please use bodhi.client.bindings instead.
DeprecationWarning)
Creating repo object from /home/rishi/devel/xchat/fedora/xchat
dead.package found, package probably already retired - will not remove files from git or overwrite existing dead.package file
Running: git push
Everything up-to-date
FAS password for user rishi:
Could not execute retire: Un-expected openid provider asked: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/fedpkg", line 16, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/fedpkg/main.py", line 77, in main
sys.exit(client.args.command())
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/fedpkg/cli.py", line 81, in retire
pkgdb.retire_packages(module_name, branch, namespace=namespace)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkgdb2client/init.py", line 756, in retire_packages
return self.handle_api_call('/package/retire/', data=args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkgdb2client/init.py", line 220, in handle_api_call
output = self.call_api(path, params, data)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkgdb2client/init.py", line 191, in call_api
self.login(username=username, password=password)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkgdb2client/init.py", line 146, in login
super(PkgDB, self).login(username, password, otp=None)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/fedora/client/openidbaseclient.py", line 293, in login
openid_insecure=self.openid_insecure)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/fedora/client/openidproxyclient.py", line 118, in openid_login
'Un-expected openid provider asked: %s' % response.url)
fedora.client.FedoraServiceError: Un-expected openid provider asked: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/

[1] https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1721