diff --git a/roles/koji_hub/templates/hub.conf.j2 b/roles/koji_hub/templates/hub.conf.j2
index 71718f9b7a..f0df76a1af 100644
--- a/roles/koji_hub/templates/hub.conf.j2
+++ b/roles/koji_hub/templates/hub.conf.j2
@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ MissingPolicyOk = False
 #ServerOffline = True
 #OfflineMessage = 'planned outage see https://www.fedorastatus.org'
 #OfflineMessage = 'koji is being migrated to a new datacenter'
-OfflineMessage = 'We are in the middle of branching new fedora release'
-LockOut = True
+#LockOut = True
+#OfflineMessage = 'We are in the middle of branching new fedora release'
 
 ## If ServerOffline is True, the server will always report a ServerOffline fault (with
 ## OfflineMessage as the fault string).