From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick Caulfield Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:14:32 +0100 Subject: [Cluster-devel] time for STABLE2 branch In-Reply-To: <20070918214044.GD15032@redhat.com> References: <20070918214044.GD15032@redhat.com> Message-ID: <46F0CC58.4030701@redhat.com> List-Id: To: cluster-devel.redhat.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > > I think we should probably branch STABLE2 off of HEAD and then back out > the changes that don't agree with the points above. > The reason we've been > putting this off is because of the pain of checking changes into another > branch. I'm hoping to come up with some way to manage and track this with > less manual intervetion, maybe even automate it to some extent. This is vital, without it any other branch will just die because no-one will be bothered to check anything into it. CVS branches are a royal pain in the bum. -- Patrick