[Linux-cluster] Re: cluster/magma-plugins/gulm gulm.c

[David Teigland]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:30:31AM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> meh.. not too long ago i was told to use U1 :) even if the development
> model for this project was explained to me, i still find it confusing.
> 
> My understanding was that there are N branches (other than head) that
> should have the same userland and differ only for the kernel side that
> are (of course) tuned for the specific release.
> 
> Wouldn't be an option to rearrange the repository to make it simpler? I
> also noticed quite a bunch of people with my same issue, often asking
> questions on IRC on what branch to use.

The confusion is our fault.  The essential problem here is that we aren't
doing proper, versioned, tarball releases of the cluster tree (like every
other project.)  Having everyone use cvs is wrong.  We're working on
fixing this; it's slow because not everyone recognizes the problem yet.

Dave