[ovirt-devel] Re: [Fedora][Engine] Hystrix going to be orphaned in Fedora

On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:06 AM, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com&gt; 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/> > > sbonazzo(a)redhat.com > <https://red.ht/sig> > <https://redhat.com/summit> >