If you do not wish to maintain python-progress in epel9, or do not think you will be able to do this in a timely manner, I would be happy to be a co-maintainer of the package.
https://pagure.io/releng/fedora-scm-requests/issue/39756
I see you've branched this for EPEL 9, can you please build this?
FEDORA-EPEL-2022-d334946dbd has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 9. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2022-d334946dbd
FEDORA-EPEL-2022-d334946dbd has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 9 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.