[openfabrics-ewg] Agenda for SC OFA meeting

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Mon Nov 6 05:29:10 PST 2006


Quoting Bill Boas <bboas at systemfabricworks.com>:
> Also notice a new acronym that seems necessary to distinguish between the 2
> software stacks that we are dealing with in the Linux environment (so far).
> 
> I had used OFSS to denote the trunk but on reviewing today the process of
> software stack approval it became clear that we can not identify one
> particular stack as the OpenFabrics software stack (i.e. the acronym would
> be OFSS) - we must distinguish between the trunk and the OFED branch so I
> have changed the suggested acronym to OFST - T being trunk.
> 
> Actually to be mor specific we should also distinguish between the operating
> system environments -  so we should probably adopt OFST-L, OFST-W (once it
> is approved by the Board), and OFED-L and OFED-W (once it is approved by the
> Board also).

Wow. This is evolving into a whole new language. Let us use english, please -
we do not *need* acronyms for development versions, and no one is going to be
confused by linux/windows versions anyway.

-- 
MST




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