On 29/01/16 12:01 PM, Richard B Winters wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I thought it might be nice (with a good recommendation from the ClusterLabs' 
> IRC community), to send an email to the users ML which describes the current 
> state of the cluster stack as it exists in Debian.
> 
> As some may already know, the Debian-HA team had missed the 'Freeze' date for 
> the Jessie release of Debian. The result of this was that any packages which 
> are maintained by the Debian-HA-Maintainers team - and which were not ready 
> for migration to testing; were not included in the release of Debian Jessie. 
> This is closely followed by a policy which excludes the aforementioned 
> packages from the Jessie (main) repository permanently.
> 
> Our only option at this point is to prepare the cluster stack and provide an 
> alternative method for Debian users to utilize said packages - until the next 
> Debian release.
> 
> With that said, the team has become active and is full of new members and 
> sponsors. We have been working quite diligently since October of 2014, in 
> order to prepare the cluster stack (the latest stack) for Debian.  So far we 
> have uploaded (into unstable/sid) :
> 
> Libqb
> Pacemaker
> Corosync
> DLM
> DRBD/Utils
> CRMSH
> Fence-Agents
> Ruby-Rpam-Ruby19
> Ruby-Monkey-Lib
> PCS
> 
> Some of the above packages have already migrated to testing, others are still 
> in the NEW queue.
> 
> We also have prepared, and are reviewing prior to upload:
> 
> Cluster-Glue
> Resource-Agents
> 
> 
> Any who are interested in getting involved and helping out, we have much left 
> to do - even once all the packages are in Debian sid/stretch.  For more 
> information, one could visit our wiki [1], browse our public repository [2], 
> or check our homepage [3] from time to time for updates (once we start 
> regularly posting there).
> 
> I have also been personally hosting a PPA [4] for Debian users, until we are 
> able to provide a more official solution.  Please be advised that the 
> packages on my PPA are not actually 100% up-to-date at this time, but are 
> still usable (I'll be updating soon!).
> 
> I'll do my best to post updates regularly, if for no other reason; to keep 
> interested parties informed of our progress!

There is also the clusterlabs developers list
(http://clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/developers), if you want to CC
development progress reports there.

As I said in IRC, I am looking forward to being able to add Debian to
the list of well supported distros. Please keep up the good work!

> References:
> 
> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Debian-HA/
> [2] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-ha/
> [3] https://debian-ha.alioth.debian.org/
> [4] https://ppa.mmogp.com/
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
> Richard B Winters (Rik/devrikx)
> 
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