High-Availability Linux Development List <linux-ha-dev@lists.linux-ha.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > the Linux-HA project is undergoing some changes, as you've noticed. Not > all of them have gone as well as expected, and it hasn't stabilized > yet. > > Under guidance with Alan, the project members have met and decided to > change the governance of the project in the future. This will be > announced in more detail soon, stay tuned. > > We also want to likely make some further changing to the package layout, > and understand that users, admins and distro maintainers dislike it when > we do that, so we don't want to make it a habit. > > We recognize the needs of our users (I hope!) to receive timely updates, > and thus have decided to go ahead and propose releasing one more 2.1.4 > (following the 2.1.x package layout) as the last release of that branch > before the restructuring kicks in completely. > > (When we decided to split off pacemaker, we didn't expect that this > would cause the upstream Linux-HA project to cease releasing > completely, and unfortunately there's been little discussion on the > lists regarding this since.) > > For SLE10 SP2, it was already too late to change the package layout, so > I've been backporting changes (which is quite easy with Mercurial) from > the Pacemaker project, the GUI, and heartbeat-dev into the 2.1.x > codebase, and done a fair amount of testing on x86, x86-64, s390x. > > However, I've been mostly focused on cherry picking what we (as in, > Novell) needed, so in particular the packaging for non-SUSE dists is > somewhat neglected in this version. > > If other distro maintainers would please help me with fixing up the > packaging, and more community members would pound on it, I would really > appreciate this. > > My proposal would be to release 2.1.4 by the end of next week > (2008-04-18). (Mostly because after that I go on vacation ;-) > > I know this is a highly condensed schedule and doesn't follow any > "proper" release methodology. The reasons for this in bullet points: > > - It's been too long since the last "official" gasp from the heartbeat > project. The code we have is clearly better than 2.1.3, and we should > get it to our users ASAP. > > - Novell has done a fair amount of testing on it already. The code is > good (as in "much better than 2.1.3"), except the packaging. > > - The new governance will eventually decide on a new release methodology > for the Linux-HA project, I expect, but this will take some more > weeks, and I don't want to delay releasing even further. > > So, with the above reasoning, I'm volunteering myself - and hijacking > the vacuum, I acknowledge - to do the 2.1.4 release, as the current > split hasn't been adopted everywhere yet, 2.1.x is defunc, and our user > community appears to need it "now" and not in several months. > > I'd plan on building the packages for all dists via OBS, if nobody holds > any strong objections and update the DownloadSoftware page after we > agree that the 2.1.4 release is good. Where do I find the sources you are using, I'll go updating the OpenBSD port. Especially, as the version 2.1.3 did not made it into the ports tree yet, but that is because of some other reasons....
> > And of course would be much approving of distro maintainers pulling it > into their official distro repositories too! > > So, that said, I've pushed my proposed code to > http://hg.linux-ha.org/lha-2.1/. It, for reasons outlined above, likely > doesn't build yet (because the in-tree packaging is broken), but I > wanted to share the scope of changes with you. ah, that are the source, but they do not compile yet? > > As a further point of reference, I'm attaching the SLES changes section > to this mail. (bnc# refers to bugzilla.novell.com.) > > > Let me emphasize strongly that I really don't want to step on anyone's > toes, or rush the new governance board, but only fill the current void > until that is actually operational and has settled down, as I suggest > our users need it. > > > Please comment. > great, thanks Sebastian _______________________________________________________ Linux-HA-Dev: Linux-HA-Dev@lists.linux-ha.org http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha-dev Home Page: http://linux-ha.org/
