"Brian Gupta" writes: > One thought? (Sorry to comment late in the process. Please ignore if this is > already ratified) Why not just create an HA community? It has been indicated > that various technologies related to HA would be appropriate to discuss > within this community. Why include clusters in the name. I suspect that > sun-cluster would be an appropriate project within an HA community.
My thought as an interested party, but not a member of the proposed Core Contributors, is that an HA community would be too broadly scoped to help drive the technology forwards. There are also already thriving communities which focus on recovery from hardware errors (FMA) and software errors (SMF) on a single node. A HA Clusters community could focus on the multi-node aspects. While there's certainly some cooperation which will occur on individual projects, day to day questions and operation of each community would not be well served by conflating these three distinct areas. The FMA community already explicitly rejected the OGB proposal for SMF and FMA to merge into a "RAS" community (details available on the OGB forum), and I agree with their reasons. I don't think there's anything new and compelling to suggest we revisit the previous decision to dilute the focus of existing communities. I know you weren't necessarily proposing a merger, but think it would be a natural outcome of attempting to broaden the scope of this new community beyond the commonly-understood Cluster scope. liane
