I was in the process of updating the Hadoop package and ran into a hard dependency on the htrace package. Here is my correspondence with rrati, the maintainer of htrace:

Robert Rati

1:29 PM (22 hours ago)

to me
I don't have time any more to maintain this or any of my fedora packages. I've been meaning to orphan them. I gave ctubbsii commit access. If you or he would like to take over maintainership I'm happy to transfer it.

Rob

On 12/29/2016 02:26 PM, Mike Miller wrote:

Hello,

The htrace package is a compile dependency on another package I am
trying to build for Fedora (hadoop 2.7.1).  Are you still maintaining
the htrace package? If so, do you have any plans to build it for a
recent release?  The last commit I see of yours was for F20. If you are
unable to maintain this package any more could you grant access to
ctubbsii <https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packager/ctubbsii/> or
myself?

Thanks,
Mike

Since it sounds like he would be OK with orphaning all of his packages (even though I only need one) I thought it would be best to just go ahead and submit ticket for them all. Here is an open bug for htrace: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1397872