[Linux-ha-dev] Re: RFC: Roadmap for 2.2.0

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2008-02-04T21:59:44, Tadashiro Yoshida <yoshida.tadashiro at oss.ntt.co.jp> wrote:

> I understand Andrew will release Pacemaker, and Alan will release
> Heartbeat, individually. 
> 
> Now we are standing on a starting point of this discussion ;-)
> 
> Someone should testify the combination of these packages in the same
> way as  Heartbeat+CRM used to be done. I think volunteer testers in
> the community had better to do it as well as Andrew does it. If so, we
> should share the set of combination of these packages for testing.
> 
> Pacemaker project gathers volunteers to test Heartbeat+Pacemaker.
> Heartbeat project gathers volunteers too. Therefore, two groups for
> testing are needed. 
> 
> That is what I wanted say, power of the community will be divided. 
> 
> Is it correct?

No, this is not correct. Please stop repeating that, and I don't
understand how you get that impression.

Testing Pacemaker involves testing it on top of the cluster
infrastructure (ie, heartbeat and openAIS). It is almost impossible to
test Pacemaker sensibly w/o a cluster stack underneath.

The testing effort will not be divided.

There is no duplication of testing effort.


Regards,
    Lars

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