diff --git a/roles/koji_hub/templates/hub.conf.j2 b/roles/koji_hub/templates/hub.conf.j2
index 139fe6b003..8cb8c08063 100644
--- a/roles/koji_hub/templates/hub.conf.j2
+++ b/roles/koji_hub/templates/hub.conf.j2
@@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ MissingPolicyOk = False
 ## These options are intended for planned outages
 #ServerOffline = True
 #OfflineMessage = 'planned outage see https://www.fedorastatus.org'
-OfflineMessage = 'We are in the middle of branching new fedora release'
-LockOut = True
+#OfflineMessage = 'We are in the middle of branching new fedora release'
+#LockOut = True
 #OfflineMessage = 'koji is being migrated to a new datacenter'
 
 ## If ServerOffline is True, the server will always report a ServerOffline fault (with