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

On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 11:00 AM, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > > 2018-05-29 10:57 GMT+02:00 Roman Mohr <rmohr(a)redhat.com&gt;: > >> >> >> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:43 AM, Roman Mohr <rmohr(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:06 AM, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com >>> > 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. >> > > NP, I'm happy you're not MIA :-) > What's your view on this topic? > > I am updating it right now to 1.5.13. I have no strong opinions. If oVirt will not use it anymore there is probably not much reason to keep it then. I don't think that it has wide adoption.

Best Regards, Roman > > >> >> >> >>> 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> >>>> >>> >>> >> > > > -- > > 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> >