Hi Nick,
Yup - community announcements go to opensolaris-announce.
cheers,
steve
Nicholas Solter wrote:
> Thanks, Stephen. One question: Am I supposed to send an announcement to
> opensolaris-announce when the community goes live? I remember reading
> that somewhere (and that seems to be what others have done), but now I
> can't find any mention of it.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
>
> Stephen Lau wrote:
>> Hi Nicholas,
>> The HA Clusters Community was voted on at today's OGB meeting, and
>> was unanimously approved by all 7 OGB members.
>>
>> cheers,
>> steve
>>
>> Nicholas Solter wrote:
>>> Following is a proposal for an HA Clusters community on opensolaris.org.
>>>
>>> Name:
>>>
>>> ?HA Clusters?
>>>
>>> Background:
>>>
>>> High-Availability (HA) Clusters are a class of tightly-coupled
>>> distributed systems that provide high availability of services
>>> through hardware and software monitoring and hardware redundancy. HA
>>> Clusters are often closely associated with the underlying operating
>>> system, and in many cases can be considered extensions of the OS. For
>>> example, approximately one half of the Solaris Cluster code runs in
>>> the Solaris kernel.
>>>
>>> Focus and Scope:
>>>
>>> The scope of the community will be implementations, ideas,
>>> innovations, and research around high-availability clusters on the
>>> OpenSolaris platform. This scope includes, but is not limited to,
>>> such areas as core technologies (eg. heartbeats, quorum,
>>> filesystems), APIs, system administration, application support code
>>> (agents), and test frameworks. Although the focus is on clusters for
>>> high-availability, as opposed to HPC clusters, grids, or other
>>> cluster technologies, we recognize that there is often overlap
>>> between the technologies for different kinds of clusters, and will
>>> not discourage fruitful conversations and projects as long as they
>>> relate to high availability.
>>>
>>> Initial Contributions:
>>>
>>> Sun Microsystems will contribute to the community the source code for
>>> Solaris Cluster, Sun's commercial HA Cluster product group, under the
>>> name ?Open High Availability Cluster.? This contribution will start
>>> at the time of community formation with the Sun Cluster Agents source
>>> for a wide portfolio of applications. A Sun Cluster Agent provides
>>> the ?glue? to allow an off-the-shelf application to run with
>>> high-availability on Sun Cluster software.
>>>
>>> Nominating Members:
>>>
>>> Bonnie Corwin
>>> Sara Dornsife
>>> Mike Kupfer
>>> Liane Praza
>>>
>>> Initial Contributors (all from Sun Microsystems):
>>>
>>> Nicholas Solter
>>> Suraj Verma
>>> Jonathan Mellors
>>> Prasad Dharmavaram
>>> Swathi Devulapalli
>>> Madhan Kumar Balasubramian
>>> Venkat Chennuru
>>> Subhadeep Sinha
>>> Lisa Shepherd
>>> Thelan Nguyen
>>> Lingling Chyu
>>> Sekhar Lakkapragada
>>> Meenakshi Kaul-Basu
>>> Thorsten Frueauf
>>> Neil Garthwaite
>>> Jatin Jhala
>>> Tim Read
>>> Detlef Ulherr
>>> Bob Bart
>>> Ashutosh Tripathi
>>> Hemachandran Namachivayam
>>>
>>>
>>> Initial Facilitator:
>>>
>>> Nicholas Solter
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Nick
>>> _______________________________________________
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>>> ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org
>>> http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss
>>
>>
>
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