On 08/08/2013, at 11:48 PM, Andrew Martin <amar...@xes-inc.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Andrew Beekhof" <and...@beekhof.net>
>> To: "The Pacemaker cluster resource manager" <pacemaker@oss.clusterlabs.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 2:35:53 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Pacemaker] Announce: Pacemaker 1.1.10 now available
>> 
>> 
>> On 08/08/2013, at 5:13 PM, Vladislav Bogdanov <bub...@hoster-ok.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> 26.07.2013 03:43, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
>>> 
>>> ...
>>> 
>>>> Release candidates for the next Pacemaker release (1.1.11) can be
>>>> expected some time around Novemeber.
>>> 
>>> Did you completely discard plan of releasing 2.0.0?
>> 
>> Short answer, yes.
>> We're just going to continue doing 1.1.x releases for the foreseeable
>> future.
>> 
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> Andrew,
> 
> In that case, which releases should be considered very stable for production 
> use?

1.1.x is what everyone should be using.

There are extensive tests (520+ for the policy engine alone) that are run every 
time we push to github for catching and preventing regressions.
RHEL ships it, SLES ships it... if you want a version that goes beyond what 
upstream provides (ie. backports and more testing), I'd suggest one of those 
two vendors[1].

The basic problem is that upstream simply doesn't have the manpower to manage 
the backporting and testing required for multiple release series.
That job is best left to enterprise distros (or large companies like NTT whose 
efforts are the only thing keeping 1.0.x alive).

If someone wanted to pick a 1.1.x release and commit to replicating NTT's 
efforts... that would not be discouraged.


[1] I would still recommend upstream releases over _rebuilds_ of RHEL or SLES 
or whoever:

1. Upstream hasn't got the bandwidth to re-diagnose and re-fix bugs in vendor 
specific releases of which we don't know all the details
2. Even if the fix is trivial and well known, there is no way for upstream to 
get it into the packages you're using

tl;dr - Use the releases supplied by whoever is providing you with support
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