On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:43 AM, Roman Mohr <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> 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.
>
>
Ok, my failure. I got a ping.



> 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/>
>>
>> [email protected]
>> <https://red.ht/sig>
>> <https://redhat.com/summit>
>>
>
>
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