Great news! Thanks, Lars. 2008/4/10 Lars Marowsky-Bree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > > Regards, > Lars > > -- > Team lead Kernel, SuSE Labs, Research and Development > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) > "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." -- Oscar Wilde > > > _______________________________________________________ > Linux-HA-Dev: [email protected] > http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha-dev > Home Page: http://linux-ha.org/ > >
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