[openfabrics-ewg] Where do contribute new stuff to OFED scripts?

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Fri Sep 15 05:01:46 PDT 2006


Quoting r. Jeff Squyres <jsquyres at cisco.com>:
> 3. Why not use SVN as a collaboration tool rather than sending patches
> around?  It seems quite inefficient to send a patch for every little thing
> that needs to be done (some OMPI scripting improvements, allowing
> system-wide/per-user MPI selection, etc.).  Patching creates more work for
> everyone (create the patch, verify the patch, test and apply the patch... By
> which time the patch may have become stale).  We have a shared development
> area (the trunk); why not use it directly?
> 
We should use mail for collaboration because that's how open development is done
- so that  review is possible.
Having everyone checking in stuff without review by maintainer is wrong.

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MST




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