[openfabrics-ewg] OFED release procedures

[Jeff Squyres]

On 9/11/06 11:16 AM, "Tziporet Koren" <tziporet at dev.mellanox.co.il> wrote:

>> Speaking of releases -- didn't Mellanox (or someone?) do an OFED 1.0.1
>> release?  I don't see a tarball for it under the 1.0 "releases" directory.
>> I also don't see a corresponding "tags" directory in SVN for OFED releases.
>>   
> You can find 1.0.1 under:
> https://openib.org/svn/gen2/branches/1.0/ofed/releases/
> svn list https://openib.org/svn/gen2/branches/1.0/ofed/releases/

Ok (I forgot to run "sun up" -- oops).  Was there anything beyond a 1.0.1
release?  Are there SVN tags for the releases, or just the final tarballs?

Can we set SVN permissions on the release branches to prevent the mistake
commits?

>> Can the OFED release methodology (both technical and procedural) be posted
>> somewhere, especially since the OFED process seems to be quite different
>> from commonly-used SVN practices?  It would be helpful to have this
>> information catalogued and posted in a common location for all to
>> read/understand.
> 
> Regarding release process - I fully agree with you.
> I published in mail the release process of OFED 1.0. We changed it for
> OFED 1.1 (using git tree) and this was done by mail too.
> So I need to write the full process now but since I am going for
> vacation it will have to wait till I am back.

My $0.02: I think that e-mails are too easy to lose (how many e-mails do we
all get a day?).  It might be better to publish these in a fixed location
(SVN, the OFA web site, whatever) and update them as relevant.

With the addition of OFED to the gen2 trunk, I assume that the OFED
development/release procedures will change again for v1.2 -- so that would
be good for us all to understand.  When you get back from vacation.  :-)

Thanks!

-- 
Jeff Squyres
Server Virtualization Business Unit
Cisco Systems