[ClusterLabs Developers] OCF under the Linux Foundation?

Ken Gaillot kgaillot at redhat.com
Wed Oct 5 16:54:55 EDT 2016


On 08/16/2016 12:44 AM, Kristoffer Grönlund wrote:
> Ken Gaillot <kgaillot at redhat.com> writes:
> 
>> How does everyone feel about this? Should we host the OCF standards
>> under the Linux Foundation, for greater reach and authority, and clear
>> neutrality? Or should we bring it under ClusterLabs, to keep everything
>> as simple as possible (and perhaps emphasize support for OSes beyond Linux)?
> 
> To me, bringing it in under ClusterLabs sounds more interesting, to be
> honest. The community has direct control and it further clarifies that
> ClusterLabs is the core development hub for Pacemaker-based HA, plus
> it's an opportunity to make the process for proposing changes simple and
> clear: Make a pull request at github.com/ClusterLabs/ocf, the discussion
> and acceptance/rejection happens there.
> 
> The OCF standard is already stagnated, bringing in more overhead and
> process isn't going to improve that situation. From my perspective, it
> needs less of that, not more.

I never did hear back from the LF after letting them know the community
wanted it under ClusterLabs, so I think we can move forward with that.
In my opinion at least, ClusterLabs is now the official home of the OCF
standard.




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