[ewg] OFED July 2, meeting summary on next OFED plans

[Tziporet Koren]

Meeting minutes are available also on OFA Wiki:
https://wiki.openfabrics.org/tiki-index.php?page=Teleconf+07-02-2007

Abbreviated minutes / summary
*	OFED 1.2.1 support release - we plan a support release on
beginning of August. 
*	OFED 1.3 - decided that its most important to close the schedule
and focus on most important features based on this schedule 
*	Based on discussion in the meeting it seems that the best target
for OFED 1.3 is November 07 

*	Most important features (from representative who participated in
the meeting) 
*	Voltaire: ConnectX stable release 
*	IBM - IPOIB CM without SRQ 
*	Qlogic: Package convenient for distros; ConnectX stable 
*	iWARP: Chelsio: Get to GA level and NFSoRDMA integration.
NetEffect: Get the drivers into OFED 
*	Mellanox: ConnectX stable release; new package; QoS 

Action Items:
1.	Other EWG members (Cisco, Intel, Labs) - send most important
features for 1.3 
2.	Tziporet - set a meeting with Redhat & Novell to close the new
package definition 
3.	Tziporet - publish OFED 1.3 schedule 
4.	MPI people (DK, Jeff, Labs) - update your plans for OFED 1.3 -
is there any specific requests toward SC07 

Detailed Minutes
*	OFED 1.2.1 release: 
*	Companies that are mostly interested in such release (e.g. IBM,
Chelsio) will do most of testing for their HW. 
*	Not all companies are committed to QA this release, so in the
release notes we will mention this limitation. 
*	There are weekly builds of OFED 1.2 branch. Any other build
should be requested from Vlad. 

*	OFED 1.2.c: 
*	All agree its important to have this code stream, and why it
cannot be the same as 1.2, and that we cannot wait for 1.3. 
*	There are companies that are currently using this code stream
and this will prevent them to participate in QA of 1.2.1 

*	OFED 1.3: 
*	There was a discussion if we wish to have the release on
November 07 or January 08 (all agreed that December is not a good month)

*	Decision was to reduce features and have a release this year =>
November 
*	There were no participants from the labs or MPI thus we lack
information on important features that should be ready for SC07 



Tziporet Koren
Software Director
Mellanox Technologies
mailto: tziporet at mellanox.co.il
Tel +972-4-9097200, ext 380

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