From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Teigland Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:43:15 -0500 Subject: [Cluster-devel] Re: time for STABLE2 branch In-Reply-To: <20070918214044.GD15032@redhat.com> References: <20070918214044.GD15032@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20070918214315.GE15032@redhat.com> List-Id: To: cluster-devel.redhat.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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