On 3/29/22 1:50 AM, Philipp Reisner wrote: >> The complete lack of bug reports and maintainer interaction usually >> suggests low to no use and heavy bitrot. If that is not the case >> here that's fine, just asking.. >> > > FYI, feature-wise the in-tree DRBD is frozen. Maintenance only. Users, > seeking advanced > features switch to the out-of-tree DRBD and use other means of communication: > Github issues, linbit's community slack channel, last not least > linbit's ticketing system. > > That is why you see virtually no activity. I've been thinking the same thing. Even if most users are out-of-tree, you'd still expect to see at least some reports on the list. A few followup questions: - Why aren't the drbd maintainers responding to posted patches? They seem to simply be ignored, and I'm left to pickup the trivial ones that look fine to me. In-kernel drbd appears largely unmaintained, and has been for years. - Even if out-of-band communication is used for in-kernel users of drbd, that doesn't result in any patches or fixes that should go upstream? - If there's zero activity for in-kernel drbd, all users are using the out-of-tree version? As far as I can tell, drbd upstream is stone cold dead, and has been for years. Why shouldn't it just get removed? Is it just bait to get people to use an out-of-tree version? -- Jens Axboe
