On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:06 AM, Sandro Bonazzola <[email protected]>
wrote:

> FESCo approved an updated policy for packages which fail to build from
> source during mass rebuilds (FTBFS).
>
> The updated policy is still at https://fedoraproject.org/w
> iki/Fails_to_build_from_source.
>
> Highlights:
>
> - packages which FTBFS are subject to orphaning if there is no
>   maintainer acknowledgement within 8 weeks
>
> - packages which FTBFS in two consecutive mass rebuilds will be
>   retired soon after the second mass rebuild
>
> Focusing on Hystrix, it has been reported failing on 2018-03-14, more than
> 10 weeks ago  and it's failing to build since Fedora 26, totalling 3
> consecutive mass rebuild failures.
> This put Hystrix in a candidate position for being orphaned.
>
> The Hystrix package is used by oVirt Engine.
> The POM requires version 1.4.14 (released this on 6 Aug 2015) .
> Fedora 24 and CentOS Virt SIG has 1.4.21 (released this on 17 Nov 2015).
> Latest upstream version is 1.5.13.
>
> Since in oVirt 4.3 we're aiming to support Fedora 28 we need to decide on
> what to do with Hystrix:
> - drop it as dependency?
> - update to latest?
> - try to fix build failure and keep current version?
>
> Roman, current maintainer (in cc) is unresponsive, not replying to my
> needinfo since 2017-08-17
>


I simply missed it. At least a concrete ping would have been nice.

Best Regards,

Roman


>
> Any volunteer for taking over?
>
> --
>
> SANDRO BONAZZOLA
>
> ASSOCIATE MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA ENG VIRTUALIZATION R&D
>
> Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/>
>
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> <https://red.ht/sig>
> <https://redhat.com/summit>
>
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