On 31/07/2013, at 5:11 AM, David Vossel <[email protected]> wrote:

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>> From: "Andrew Beekhof" <[email protected]>
>> To: "General Linux-HA mailing list" <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 7:46:25 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Linux-HA] Antw: Re: establishing a new resource-agent package  
>> provider
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>> On 30/07/2013, at 4:21 PM, Ulrich Windl <[email protected]>
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>>>>>> David Vossel <[email protected]> schrieb am 30.07.2013 um 01:20 in
>>>>>> Nachricht
>>> <[email protected]>:
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>>> [...]
>>>>> How does this compare to the Red Hat fence/resource-agent packages? I'm
>>>>> very happy to see "heartbeat" and it's inherent confusion go away, so I
>>>>> am fundamentally for this. I only question "core" and how it will relate
>>>>> to those fence and resource agents.
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>>>> "core" would only be related to the ocf standard.  I don't think this
>>>> should
>>>> have any relation to the fence agents.
>>> [...]
>>> 
>>> I wonder: "ocf:base:..." or "ocf:standard:..." instaed of "ocf:core:..."
>>> 
>>> My personal associations are a bit like this:
>>> core == essential
>>> base == basic functions
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>> many are not basic
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>>> standard == somewhat standardized
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>> nor are they a standard (although they do conform to one)... they're just the
>> ones that the people upstream ships.
>> I like this one the least.
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> yeah, standard sounds confusing to me.  Splitting agents between core and 
> base is going to be difficult as well.  If we did something like that, I'd 
> probably want to do 'core' and 'extended'... where core supported agents are 
> ones the community takes ownership of, and extended agents are agents that 
> exist in the project, but are only maintained by a subset of the community.  
> I don't really want to do something like this though.
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>> "common" perhaps?
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> perhaps, but I still prefer 'core' over 'common'
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> These are the 'core' resource agents that the ocf community supports. Agents 
> outside of the 'core' provider are supported by different projects and 
> subsets of the community (like linbit and the drbd agent).

I'm convinced.  Lars?

> To me 'common' refers to something that is shared... like a library or 
> something. That probably isn't what we're going for. 
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> -- Vossel
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>> I don't much care beyond saying that continuing to call them "heartbeat" is a
>> continuing source of confusion to people just arriving to our set of
>> projects.
>> Calling them "heartbeat" made sense originally, but now its an historical
>> anachronism. IMHO.
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>>> Regards,
>>> Ulrich
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