On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:06 AM, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo@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/wiki/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?

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SANDRO BONAZZOLA

ASSOCIATE MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA ENG VIRTUALIZATION R&D

Red Hat EMEA

sbonazzo@redhat.com