[Mageia-dev] freeze push: linux ha cluster stack

Fri Apr 20 20:13:46 CEST 2012

Hello,
+
+In Mageia 1, some HA cluster tools have been imported from Mandriva.
+Most of them have not been updated since they were imported, they are
+maintained by nobody, are old versions, and I'm not sure they are working.
+
+So I propose to push the following packages (and become maintainer of
+those packages) :
+
+- corosync 2.0.0 : We currently have version 1.2.8 from 2010-08, which
+  is no longer supported upstream.
+
+- pacemaker 1.1.7 : last version of pacemaker, required to use corosync
+  2.0.0
+
+- resource-agents 3.9.2 : we currently have version 3.0.17 from 2010-10, 
+  which is not working with recent versions of pacemaker
+
+- fence-agents 3.1.8 : we currently have version 3.0.17 from 2010-10.
+
+- gfs2-utils 3.0.17 : recent version of gfs2-utils for kernel 3.3. This
+  was provided by the cluster source package before, and is now a
+  separate package
+
+I have been testing pacemaker with corosync in VMs with those packages,
+and it is working.
+
+I also propose to drop the following packages :
+
+- cluster (including cman, rmanager) : obsoleted upstream, pacemaker
+  should be used instead :
+  https://fedorahosted.org/cluster/wiki/HomePage
+
+- heartbeat : upstream development is stopped and equivalent or
+  superior functionality is in corosync
+
+- openais : project seems dead (no website online anymore), and nothing
+  require this (except cman from cluster package which we are dropping)
+
+Those packages have also been deprecated in Fedora 17 :
+http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Cluster
+
+