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suse.de> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> the Linux-HA project is undergoing some changes, as
you've noticed. Not
> all of them have gone as well as expected, and it
hasn't stabilized
> yet.
>
> Under guidance with Alan, the project members have met
and decided to
> change the governance of the project in the future.
This will be
> announced in more detail soon, stay tuned.
>
> We also want to likely make some further changing to
the package layout,
> and understand that users, admins and distro
maintainers dislike it when
> we do that, so we don't want to make it a habit.
>
> We recognize the needs of our users (I hope!) to
receive timely updates,
> and thus have decided to go ahead and propose releasing
one more 2.1.4
> (following the 2.1.x package layout) as the last
release of that branch
> before the restructuring kicks in completely.
>
> (When we decided to split off pacemaker, we didn't
expect that this
> would cause the upstream Linux-HA project to cease
releasing
> completely, and unfortunately there's been little
discussion on the
> lists regarding this since.)
>
> For SLE10 SP2, it was already too late to change the
package layout, so
> I've been backporting changes (which is quite easy with
Mercurial) from
> the Pacemaker project, the GUI, and heartbeat-dev into
the 2.1.x
> codebase, and done a fair amount of testing on x86,
x86-64, s390x.
>
> However, I've been mostly focused on cherry picking
what we (as in,
> Novell) needed, so in particular the packaging for
non-SUSE dists is
> somewhat neglected in this version.
>
> If other distro maintainers would please help me with
fixing up the
> packaging, and more community members would pound on
it, I would really
> appreciate this.
>
> My proposal would be to release 2.1.4 by the end of
next week
> (2008-04-18). (Mostly because after that I go on
vacation 
>
> I know this is a highly condensed schedule and doesn't
follow any
> "proper" release methodology. The reasons for
this in bullet points:
>
> - It's been too long since the last
"official" gasp from the heartbeat
> project. The code we have is clearly better than
2.1.3, and we should
> get it to our users ASAP.
>
> - Novell has done a fair amount of testing on it
already. The code is
> good (as in "much better than 2.1.3"),
except the packaging.
>
> - The new governance will eventually decide on a new
release methodology
> for the Linux-HA project, I expect, but this will
take some more
> weeks, and I don't want to delay releasing even
further.
>
> So, with the above reasoning, I'm volunteering myself -
and hijacking
> the vacuum, I acknowledge - to do the 2.1.4 release, as
the current
> split hasn't been adopted everywhere yet, 2.1.x is
defunc, and our user
> community appears to need it "now" and not in
several months.
>
> I'd plan on building the packages for all dists via
OBS, if nobody holds
> any strong objections and update the DownloadSoftware
page after we
> agree that the 2.1.4 release is good.
>
> And of course would be much approving of distro
maintainers pulling it
> into their official distro repositories too!
>
> So, that said, I've pushed my proposed code to
>