[Cluster-devel] Re: time for STABLE2 branch

[David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 04:40:45PM -0500, David Teigland wrote:
> I believe the time has arrived for a STABLE2 cluster branch.
> 
> CVS HEAD hasn't been usable by most people for quite a while, partly due
> to ugly build requirements and partly due to instability of new code.
> Building HEAD currently requires the unstable version of openais, and a
> gfs2 patch that only exists in the gfs2 git tree -- both things that most
> people don't want to use, or are difficult to use.
> 
> The RHEL5 branch has also been largely unusable for a long time, because
> it requires the RHEL5.1 kernel to build it, which isn't generally
> available AFAIK, much less widely in use.
> 
> The STABLE2 branch will:
> - work with the latest stable upstream kernel from kernel.org
> - work with the whitetank branch of openais
> - otherwise have the same code/patches as the RHEL5 branch

There will be another important difference between the RHEL5 and STABLE2
branches: the excellent build system that Fabio has developed in HEAD.

Dave