Hi Everybody, I've recently updated most of the High Availability packages in network:ha-clustering:Factory to current stable versions (corosync 1.2, openais 1.2, pacemaker 1.1 etc. - previously we had openais 0.80.x and pacemaker 1.0.x, which were really quite old). This leaves the question of what to do with the heartbeat package. Currently we have version 2.99.3, which gives us: - heartbeat - heartbeat-resources (obsoleted by resource-agents) - heartbeat-common (obsoleted by cluster-glue) - heartbeat-ldirectord (obsoleted by resource-agents) - associated lib & devel packages Upstream, heartbeat is now at version 3.0, but is effectively in "maintenance mode" (i.e. not under active development)[1]. So, we should either upgrade heartbeat in Factory to version 3 (and make it use the new resource-agents and cluster-glue packages as dependencies), or drop it. I personally am in favour of dropping it, because: - We have a current version of corosync/openais as an alternative messaging layer for Pacemaker clusters. - Heartbeat is no longer under active development. - I am not currently in a position where I can upgrade and/or maintain the Heartbeat packages myself. Accordingly, if nobody objects (or offers to become maintainer) before the end of Monday July 5[2], I'll put in a deleterequest for heartbeat in Factory some time on Tuesday. Regards, Tim [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-ha@lists.linux-ha.org/msg14520.html [2] I will of course wait for Monday July 5 to finish everywhere in the world. -- Tim Serong <tserong@novell.com> Senior Clustering Engineer, OPS Engineering, Novell Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org