From:	 Alan Robertson <alanr@unix.sh>
To:	 Linux-HA Development List <linux-ha-dev@lists.community.tummy.com>,
	 ha-linux List <linux-ha@muc.de>, Linux Weekly News <lwn@lwn.net>
Subject: Linux-HA January 2002 Status
Date:	 Tue, 22 Jan 2002 11:38:43 -0700

The keenly observant will note that I didn't send out a status note in
December (I was on vacation at the end of the month).  So a few of these
things happened in December.

We established the web site opencf.org for the Open Clustering Framework
standards effort along with starting up the OCF mailing list.  We've decided
to limit ourselves to working on two areas to start with:  Node services,
and resource agents.

We posted the meeting notes from the Enschede clustering conference to the
OCF mailing list.

We're making good progress on defining the API for resource agents.

We released a new beta version of heartbeat - version 0.4.9a.  It is the
first step in restructuring heartbeat to be components in the open cluster
framework.  This release has a new feature for gracefully putting a node in
the cluster into standby mode.  This release also builds on OSes other than
Linux - FreeBSD and Solaris are very close to working right, and at last
word AIX builds correctly.

We had a live chat discussion of clustering standards sponsored by
Sourceforge.  It was quite lively and interesting.  One of the results of
this discussion was that Alan was invited to speak at the annual OSCAR
meeting.

We presented our direction on clustering standards at the annual OSCAR
meeting in Santa Ana, CA.  The slides from this talk are on the opencf.org
web site.

We had a few discussions in Austin with the GoAhead about their possible
participation in the OCF standards effort.

Somewhere along in here, Alan took about 2 weeks off.  It was good to forget
about these things for a while ;-)

Alan will be presenting four times at Linux World next week - a talk in the
main forums on Friday, at the RAS panel, at the Clustering Framework
standards BOF, and at the Developer's Den.  The talk at the Developer's Den
will be a short tutorial on using heartbeat.  The slides for these talks are
on the opencf and linux-ha web sites.

All in all, we've been pretty busy ;-)

	Until Next Month,

	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr@unix.sh

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