On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 9:31 PM, Volker Krause <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday, 1 July 2018 01:16:21 CEST Ben Cooksley wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> We currently have a persistent build failure on Windows for Akonadi, >> which in turn is beginning to create maintainability issues for >> Extragear projects which have Windows builds. >> >> Among the projects harmed by this breakage in Akonadi are Alkimia, >> Atelier, KMyMoney, Elisa, KDE Connect, Kile, Konversation, KRename, >> KStars, KDiagram, Labplot and Okteta. >> >> As this breakage started occurring approximately 2 weeks ago, we have >> now reached the point where an immediate fix is required. Leaving it >> in the broken condition we have currently is not an option. >> >> Therefore to resolve this issue I intend to force rewind Akonadi to >> the last successfully built revision, >> 28487318a857b9beab33c5e42422fee98944d536, in 48 hours time. Following >> this force rewind the Akonadi repository will be locked. > > This has been fixed.
Thanks for taking care of that Volker. > > Rather than letting things escalate for two weeks to this point for what is > essentially a simple one-line change, we probably all should review the > notification/monitoring workflow. I suspect the main problem was that neither > the people who broke this nor those who could quickly fix it simply weren't > aware of the breakage? I'm not sure whether email notifications to the mailing list are suitable to resolve this, but i've now set those up for PIM. > > Regards, > Volker Thanks, Ben
