On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 04:40:45PM -0500, David Teigland wrote: > I believe the time has arrived for a STABLE2 cluster branch. > > CVS HEAD hasn't been usable by most people for quite a while, partly due > to ugly build requirements and partly due to instability of new code. > Building HEAD currently requires the unstable version of openais, and a > gfs2 patch that only exists in the gfs2 git tree -- both things that most > people don't want to use, or are difficult to use. > > The RHEL5 branch has also been largely unusable for a long time, because > it requires the RHEL5.1 kernel to build it, which isn't generally > available AFAIK, much less widely in use. > > The STABLE2 branch will: > - work with the latest stable upstream kernel from kernel.org > - work with the whitetank branch of openais > - otherwise have the same code/patches as the RHEL5 branch > > I think we should probably branch STABLE2 off of HEAD and then back out > the changes that don't agree with the points above. The reason we've been > putting this off is because of the pain of checking changes into another > branch. I'm hoping to come up with some way to manage and track this with > less manual intervetion, maybe even automate it to some extent.
I'm hoping that we can switch to git on sourcware.org prior to doing the STABLE2 branch. Given a STABLE2 git branch, another new branch for Fedora would be a short and easy step away (there's a chance that STABLE2 itself may work for Fedora.) Dave
