This section is currently not meant as a definite summary of how Pacemaker got into where it stands now, but rather to provide few valuable pointers an entusiasts (presumably software archeologist type of person) may find useful. Moreover, well-intentioned contributors to Pacemaker project may want to review them occasionally since, as the famous quote has it, "those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it".
For anything more talkative with less emphasis on actual code, other places will serve better for the time being (and if not, should not be too hard to volunteer extensions to those writeups):
