On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 02:05:48PM +0200, Florian Haas wrote: > Hello, > > in case you haven't yet noticed: as of resource-agents 1.0.2, several > Linux-HA resource agents are marked as deprecated: > > - EvmsSCC and > - Evmsd (both apply to EVMS, which is no longer maintained);
Fine with me, as newer distributions don't ship with EVMS anymore anyways. Older distros (read: sles10) can easily keep the latest copy of those. > - LinuxSCSI (superseded by SCSI reservations and SF-EX); Does something different, I think. And it still "works", whatever that means for this RA ;-) I doubt that anyone actually uses this, but if someone does, he probably has to. > - drbd (superseded by ocf:linbit:drbd); Could possibly be replaced with a wrapper and continue to complain noisily. We may also offload that to distributors, though. Then, maybe not. Rather do that ourselves ;-) > - pingd (superseded by ocf:pacemaker:pingd, which in turn is now > considered obsolete and superseded by ocf:pacemaker:ping if I understand > correctly). Should be replaced by a wrapper around the pacemaker ping, then, and continue to complain noisily. maybe add ocf_really_deprecated_will_be_removed "2011-04-01"? well, chose a better date ;-) > Since nobody should be using these anymore, And how is the average nobody supposed to know that? ;-) > and we've already kept them for two releases, > I suggest that we drop these from 1.0.4. 1.0.2 was Feb 1st. 1.0.3 was last week. If that implies 1.0.4 will be in June, I don't think that deprecation timeframe was sufficient. Most likely no one, at least no one using them, has noticed. No one reads the logs unless something does not work. Most people won't even see it once they look, because of the bad signal/noise level in those logs. Dejan, Rasto, Tim, Yan: Our various user interfaces should probably warn about deprecated resource agents, too. Currently the deprecation is in the longdesc, and in the logs. Does it need to go somewhere else to make it easier for the UIs to pick it up? Maybe even crm_mon could: one line with "deprecated RAs in use" by default, details if invoked with -f? What else can we do to get the deprecation actually noticed by existing installations, respectively "the guy responsible"? > In addition, I suggest that we deprecate (and after a couple more > releases, drop) the Linux-HA incarnations of Dummy and Stateful, as > duplicates of these already exist in Pacemaker, and Andrew has indicated > he wants to maintain them there rather than fix them in the Linux-HA repo. Right. -- : Lars Ellenberg : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : DRBD/HA support and consulting http://www.linbit.com DRBD® and LINBIT® are registered trademarks of LINBIT, Austria. _______________________________________________________ Linux-HA-Dev: [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha-dev Home Page: http://linux-ha.org/
