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.
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Tim Serong