[Debian-ha-maintainers] state of debian-ha

[Arturo Borrero Gonzalez]

On 10 December 2015 at 17:27, Ferenc Wagner <wferi at niif.hu> wrote:
> Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo.borrero.glez at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I think it worth pushing pacemaker to unstable as soon as possible so
>> people can start testing the stack and reporting bugs.
>
> Agreed.  One thing keeping back the Pacemaker package is the licensing
> of its documentation.  It's GFDL, so we should check that it does not
> contain invariant sections.  I don't know how to do that, though.
>

Could we simply repack and drop the documentation by now or something?

> Also, its upstream systemd service file contains
>
> Restart=on-failure
>
> which I'm inclined to remove on the grounds that if Pacemaker fails, the
> node will get fenced anyway, so restarting it just adds noise to the
> logs (I'm investigating such an event in our test cluster right now).

I agree. Anyway, this is one of the things we can let users try by
uploading to unstable now.

> Anybody knows a reason not to drop redhat-cluster?

I would say nobody cares. There are 2 RC bugs, easy to solve, with no
activity for months.

Can we simply ignore redhat-cluster for now? I would like to avoid
anything related to that package being a blocker for pacemaker.

> Sheepdog builds with Corosync 2 with minimal changes.
> AFAIK crmsh uses the Pacemaker interface only, so it isn't affected by
> the corosync transition.
> I don't think there would be much point in keeping heartbeat, but if we
> do, it must be an alternative dependency of Pacemaker.
>

I would ignore heartbeat as well. Perhaps some people still run it,
but I will call that a 'corner case', don't you?

>
> So, if somebody could help cleaning up the Pacemaker legalities, that
> would be most helpful to get things moving again.  I've got a security
> issue to handle in another package stack, but expect to get back to
> working on Pacemaker shortly.

I will take a look, and let you know. I don't know so much about the
GFDL thing so I will need to read some docs.

Also: Would you please give pointers to your packaging repo? If you
don't have, would you mind uploading somewhere?
So I could send potential patches easily :-)

-- 
Arturo Borrero González