[Pacemaker] Resource capacity limit

[Dejan Muhamedagic]

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 07:28:16PM +0100, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Dejan Muhamedagic <dejanmm at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >> Which reminds me, I need to get devel sorted out...
> >
> > While you're at it, perhaps it would be good to rethink the
> > release policy. For me in particular it would be great to know at
> > least one week in advance when there'll be a release. For the
> > general public as well, since they'll have a chance to do some
> > testing of the new code.
> 
> The idea is that people can always pull from stable-1.0, in theory it
> should never be broken.
> If you're in the middle of stuff, keep it locally until you're done.
> 
> Generally though, I start testing on the 15th of every month.
> I thought I said that somewhere... I know the releases page indicates
> the month (if its delayed as it was due to my move).
> 
> But I'm thinking of moving to a bi-monthly cycle.  Thoughts?

Agreed. In principle, somewhat slower release process should
result in better releases.

> > I know that you do test before
> > releasing, but the more people test in various environments, the
> > more bugs found. Also, it may be good to introduce and announce
> > the feature freeze point, after which only bug fixes will be
> > accepted.
> 
> Well in theory that point is x.y.0
> I've been turning a blind eye to your changes in the shell because its
> still very immature (I don't mean that negatively, its just new code).

That should of course change as soon as the shell supports all
CIB constructs (which is not far away). But we all understood
that it made no sense to keep those changes out :)

Thanks,

Dejan

> Though I've a history of allowing isolated, non-invasive features if
> we've not yet planned the next stable series (basically what happened
> for the node health stuff from IBM).   Its a case-by-case thing, but
> I'd agree that we could do with documenting this.
> 
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