[openfabrics-ewg] Re: How to generate IBEDreleasesusing 1.0branch

[Shawn Hansen (shahanse)]

I will send out an announcement today.

I think we have consensus around the definition of how IBED and the
OpenFabrics release relate to each other.

My remaining confusion is also around the software release process.

--Shawn 

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Leininger [mailto:mlleinin at hpcn.ca.sandia.gov] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 10:41 AM
To: Roland Dreier (rdreier)
Cc: Shawn Hansen (shahanse); Michael S. Tsirkin;
Openfabrics-ewg at openib.org; Sujal Das
Subject: Re: [openfabrics-ewg] Re: How to generate IBEDreleasesusing
1.0branch

On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 17:53 -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     > Differences between IBED and OpenFabrics Release 1.0:
> 
> To me the key difference is that OpenFabrics Release 1.0 is a release 
> of OpenFabrics software, and IBED is a distribution of IB software 
> that includes release, along with other components (kernel modules, 
> MPI, etc).

  I think this definition of OpenFabrics software release and IBED
distribution release makes technical sense right now. However, having
two release processes is going to make it confusing for customers.  This
is why the OpenFabrics BOD asked us to come up with one release process.


  Perhaps the software release process (what we are currently calling
OpenFabrics-1.0) could turn into a daily/weekly/monthly user-space
snapshot.  We wouldn't need to worry about MPI or other ULPs for these
snapshots.

The IBED distribution release would stay as the long-term plan for
getting a production quality kernel+user space (MPI, etc.) version of
OpenFabrics software for vendors and Linux distros to use.

  FWiW, I'm already getting emails/calls with folks confused about IBED
and OpenFabrics releases.  We need to get an announcement out ASAP.

  Thanks,

  - Matt