[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Re: RFC OFED-1.3 installation

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen) <sweitzen at cisco.com>:
> Subject: RE: [ofa-general] Re: RFC OFED-1.3 installation
> 
> 
> > >  > I don't really think we want customers to run beta code
> > > 
> > > What's the point of a beta then??
> > 
> > Donnu.
> > In previous OFED releases, we had "release candidates" rather 
> > than "beta".
> > Openfabrics members were running RCs and reporting issues on 
> > the list and in
> > bugzilla. Do you really ask your customers to do this for you?
> 
> You say toMAYto, I say toMAHto.
> 
> We had many customers running various OFED 1.2 pre-GA builds for
> testing, sometimes we had to use a daily build because of certain bug
> fixes.

OK then, I guess we could try to make it easy to switch between RCs.
But daily ... we don't want to increment a revision on each change, do we?

Maybe a nonstandard way like ofedinfo is enough for these testing setups?

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