Reminder regarding policy for new or updated dependencies

[Ben Cooksley]

On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 11:28 PM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 11:46 AM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The following is a friendly reminder that the introduction of new
>> mandatory dependencies, or bumping of versions of mandatory
>> dependencies, requires explicit notification to Sysadmin in advance of
>> the change being made.
>>
>> Per Community Policy these notifications must be made 2 weeks in
>> advance of the change being introduced.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ben Cooksley
>> KDE Sysadmin
>
> If you say that because fwupd, it's not a mandatory dependency, just
> nice to have.
> The fact that it failed was legitimate CI finding broken code.

When it was initially introduced, the CMake code was using find(...
REQUIRED) which is why I sent this message.
I saw later on that it was changed to make it optional.

>
> Aleix

Cheers,
Ben