Re: Slony-I makes progress

On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 04:57:28PM -0500, Jan Wieck wrote:
> After some substantial progress on the Slony-I engine development, I'd
> like to give a little status report and invite everyone who wants to
> participate in this project to join the mailing list and the development
> team.

Jan, thank you so much for your hard work on this project.

> Both, the provider change and the failover need a much more complex
> configuration than the current shell scripts can setup. The problem is
> that the configuration and administration tools are not designed yet. So
> here is a huge field for others to step up and take a key role in this
> project.

So what are you looking for here? When I last built slony, things
mostly worked, but a few niggling details were broken. I was going to
submit a few patches, but when I talked to you, it seemed like you
weren't quite ready for patches. Is the tree stable enough that I could
do some work on it and expect it to remain relatively consistent over a
few hours or even a day or two?

Also, to get this out of the way (as it presently plagues erserver), do
you have a particular language in mind? I'd like to avoid the dogmatic
jihad by not submitting a perl tool if the eventual goal is to be
end-to-end C (or java or tcl or whatever).

Alex

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