On 09/10/2014 06:02 AM, Dejan Muhamedagic wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 06:31:11PM -0600, Alan Robertson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I use the Neo4j graph database in the Assimilation project, and the
>> Assimilation code uses OCF RAs (among others).
>>
>> So I wrote a neo4j resource agent.  I'm currently publishing it as part
>> of the Assimilation project code - because it's convenient for me.
> There's nothing wrong with that. Actually, it'd be good if more
> resource agents lived where there's enough expertise and
> manpower to maintain them. While dealing with resource agents,
> I'm often confronted with issues I have no clue about :) It can
> be frustrated at times.
I think I'd agree if it were published as part of Neo4j.  That would
make total sense.

Not so sure it makes sense that you have to grab it from my project --
how would you even know it exists?

>
> Cheers,
>
> Dejan
>
>> If there is interest from others who would use it, I'd be happy to
>> provide it individually, or maybe even as part of the resource-agents
>> package.
>>
>> The reason for me not to do that is that the distros lag far behind
>> (usually years behind) current source.  So even if I published it there,
>> it would likely be years before I could stop publishing my own copy.
>>
>> [I confess I haven't yet written the metadata for the agent - because I
>> don't need it.  If someone wants to use it, I'd be happy to take a patch
>> with metadata, or *gasp* write it myself].
>>
>>
>> As an aside:
>> The reason I use a graph database (like Neo4j) is this: we model data
>> centers (servers, applications, networks, IPs, MACs, switch connections,
>> dependencies, etc) -- and almost all interesting questions about data
>> centers are naturally graph questions.
>>
>>
>>     -- Alan Robertson
>>        al...@assimilationsystems.com OR al...@unix.sh
>>        http://assimilationsystems.com/
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