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

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&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. > > 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/> >> >> sbonazzo(a)redhat.com >> <https://red.ht/sig> >> <https://redhat.com/summit> >> > >