Andrew Beekhof wrote:
> On 4/19/07, Alan Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Andrew Beekhof wrote:
>> > On 4/18/07, Lars Marowsky-Bree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> On 2007-04-17T19:40:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > >Easiest way is to model after an existing resource agent, Xen for
>> >> > >example.
>> >> > I've found the Dummy one a good start in the past. Simple, and shows
>> >> > the basic required components.
>> >>
>> >> Yeah, but that one now calls the ha_pseudo_resource wrappers which
>> isn't
>> >> exactly obvious.
>> >
>> > it never used to and I'd much prefer it didn't for precisely the
>> > reason that it was a good template
>> >
>> > in fact i might just go and revert that particular change now - at
>> > least for Dummy
>>
>> We actually use that resource, and it's not such a good template, IIRC
>> for other reasons.
>
> as the person who wrote this RA, I can tell you it has always had two
> purposes (as also mentioned in the commit message).
>
> 1 - be so insanely simple that it was guaranteed to work (and therefor
> good for testing)
> 2 - be an appropriate starting point for people writing RAs
> (without any extra baggage that would then get copied a million times)
>
> _please_ do not add features to it, nor refactor it.
> I like it exactly how it is.
>
>> If we want a template, maybe we should just put it in the doc directory
>> as a template with lots and lots of comments?
Well, I had the impression that this had already been done. I wasn't
intending to propose that we make it complicated.
--
Alan Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Wilberforce
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