[ClusterLabs Developers] RFC: Website updates

[Andrew Beekhof]

> On 31 Mar 2015, at 2:46 am, Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca> wrote:
> 
> On 30/03/15 11:22 AM, Ken Gaillot wrote:
>> On 03/29/2015 11:32 PM, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
>>> Would anyone like to comment on the changes at http://oss-uk-1.clusterlabs.org/ before I push them to the main site?
>> 
>> Great start!
>> 
>> It brings up a question about the project name.
>> 
>> The discussion at the summit was that projects like OpenStack benefit
>> from having a marketing-friendly umbrella brand for a collection of
>> distinct components.
>> 
>> Everyone agreed an umbrella for clustering components would be a good
>> idea. It would be hosted at the Cluster Labs sites, and "Cluster Labs"
>> would also be the interim name of the project itself.
>> 
>> On a permanent basis, we could keep Cluster Labs as the project name
>> (e.g. "Cluster Labs Pacemaker"), or it could host the project (e.g.
>> "Cluster Labs, Home of ProjectX" and "ProjectX Pacemaker").
>> 
>> Is everyone happy with keeping "Cluster Labs" as the permanent umbrella
>> name, or have other suggestions? Previous umbrella names Open Cluster
>> Framework (OCF) and Linux-HA didn't stick, but we're hoping this is a
>> good time to catch fire now that there are fewer competing projects and
>> everyone here's jumping in.
> 
> I think we decided to stick with "Cluster Labs", in part because we
> don't know where "clustering" will go in the future, and we didn't want
> to pigeon-hole ourself using "HA" in the name.

Also why I just said "cluster" not "HA cluster" in the sentance you called out ;-)

> Also, "cluster labs" has
> good history and weighting in search engines.
> 
> So unless I am remembering wrong; "Cluster Labs" is the long-term
> project name.

yep. even the two lars' agree by now :)

> 
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