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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Thanks for the comments, Betsy. Are you suggesting that all that be done before release 1.1 or soon after? <BR>
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Aviram, the minimum we can do asap is to publish the current process once again so that everyone is on the same page and can start reviewing it.<BR>
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Sujal<BR>
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From: openfabrics-ewg-bounces@openib.org <openfabrics-ewg-bounces@openib.org><BR>
To: Aviram Gutman <aviram@dev.mellanox.co.il><BR>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin; Hoang-Nam Nguyen <HNGUYEN@de.ibm.com>; Open Fabrics <openfabrics-ewg@openib.org><BR>
Sent: Mon Sep 18 20:02:56 2006<BR>
Subject: Re: [openfabrics-ewg] Where do contribute new stuff to OFED scripts?<BR>
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Aviram - we really shouldn't hold off on this discussion for a full<BR>
month until Tziporet is back. At the time of her return, she can provide<BR>
her insights and propose changes, but we really need to get this sorted<BR>
out. There are a number of issues where the procedure is pretty opaque -<BR>
there have been several cases of this just in today's discussion. For<BR>
example, it is not immediately obvious which of the build scripts will<BR>
build a source tarball, nor that the source is pulled from two different<BR>
trees. Yes, we've been able to figure it all out by perusing old emails<BR>
and asking some questions, but there has got to be an easier way. Also,<BR>
though people do try to respond promptly to questions, the problem is<BR>
exacerbated by the fact that we are all in different time zones. Things<BR>
that should take minutes can take days instead.<BR>
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It's also clear from the email discussions that there is some confusion<BR>
over when and what the next release should be.<BR>
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There's three steps to this, to be repeated as necessary<BR>
1) Publish the current process<BR>
2) Identify the areas that don't work for everyone they need to, and<BR>
determine how to change them.<BR>
3) Document and publish in the updated process in a well known place.<BR>
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We do need to start this discussion.<BR>
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Betsy<BR>
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On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 19:38 +0300, Aviram Gutman wrote:<BR>
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> I disagree. Tziporet as the release maintainer published few times a<BR>
> schedule. The feature set for this release was published more then a<BR>
> month ago.Since not all EWG members finished their testing before RC4,<BR>
> there was a need for RC5 and RC6. Betsy asked for RC6 on Wed and we will<BR>
> follow that. Hopefully this is the last RC and we can go with last round<BR>
> of testing and release next week.<BR>
><BR>
> I understand that Jeff has some issues that he wants to clear and we can<BR>
> continue doing over the list or by a meeting that I prefer to have on<BR>
> Oct-16 when Tziporet is back.<BR>
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> Aviram<BR>
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