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

[Tadashiro Yoshida]

At Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:10:09 +0100, beekhof at gmail.com wrote in <868201F5-DAD7-493F-956E-42180D2686A4 at gmail.com>:
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> On Jan 31, 2008, at 12:38 AM, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
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> > On 2008-01-31T08:24:08, Tadashiro Yoshida <yoshida.tadashiro at oss.ntt.co.jp 
> > > wrote:
> >
> 
> If one followed your scenario to it's logical conclusion, then the  
> SUSE and Red Hat DVD's would contain a single rpm package containing  
> the complete distribution.
> Clearly this is not the case and for good reason.
> 
> What we are doing here is hardly without precedent.  You may have  
> heard of the X11 project that did a similar thing.
> If they can get by without a monolithic package, then I'm sure we can  
> too.
> 
> 
> Pacemaker does not belong to or in Heartbeat.  Neither is Heartbeat  
> the only cluster stack that will be using Pacemaker.
> 
> A combined package is not only unnecessary but also utterly  
> inappropriate.

That's true. There are no definite conventions and rules how each software module should be divided. It depends on the product and project. 
What I said is just my expectation for Heartbeat. 

> >
> >>> openSUSE's Build Service is just that: it provides a build  
> >>> environment
> >>> for all distributions, not just openSUSE. RedHat, RHEL, CentOS,  
> >>> Debian,
> >>> Ubuntu, Fedora, and by coincidence openSUSE/SLES as well ;-)
> >> Do you mean you could accept any modification even if some troubles  
> >> are found in another distribution other than openSUSE?
> >
> > Certainly! We already do that today; always have, always will. I don't
> > think we have ever refused a bug on any distribution.
> 
> Just to emphasis this point, if one looks through the mail archives,  
> you will find we have a long history of going out of our way to  
> accommodate not only other Linux distributions, but other  
> _operating_systems_ as well.  I for one do most of my development work  
> on Darwin.
> 
> The fact that we have non-SUSE packages for OpenAIS, Heartbeat and  
> Pacemaker on the build service should underline our commitment to  
> supporting those parts of the community that do not run SUSE products.
> 

What I would like to say is that we might have another target of package for testing. ;-)

Regards,

Tadashiro Yoshida