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

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Feb 5, 2008, at 1:22 AM, Tadashiro Yoshida wrote:

> At Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:13:29 +0100, beekhof at gmail.com wrote in <BC906F7B-C20F-4DFB-AA12-764A4440C1C9 at gmail.com 
> >:
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>>
>> On Feb 4, 2008, at 1:59 PM, Tadashiro Yoshida 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.
>>
>> The community is not divided because there is no functional overlap
>> between the projects - Heartbeat and Pacemaker do different things.
>> To make an analogy, one would not claim that the existence of X11
>> fragments the KDE community.
>>
>> And you're completely forgetting the about the OpenAIS community that
>> can now work with us too - if anything the power of the community is
>> _multiplied_.
>> Seriously, SUSE and Red Hat are finally working together on a common
>> cluster infrastructure and you're worried about fragmentation??
>
> No. New combination of Pacemaker and OpenAIS certainly contribute  
> quality of the Pacemaker up, and it is good for Heartbeat too.
>
> I just want to know current and future situation and to know what  
> the best way is for us.
>
> Again, there are no definite conventions and rules how each software  
> module should be divided. It depends on the product and project.  
> It's apparently up to developers, not me.
>
> My understanding in the discussion so far is as follows:
>
> 1) Pacemaker is provided to both of Heartbeat and OpenAIS.

yes

> 2) Pacemaker will be released after sedulous test with Heartbeat as  
> well as OpenAIS.

yes

>
> 3) Pacemaker will accept any beneficial change from Heartbeat and  
> OpenAIS community.

definitely

>
>
> Is it correct above?
>
> Regards,
>
> Tadashiro Yoshida
>
>
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