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<TITLE>Minutes for January 29, 2007 teleconference about OFED 1.2 release integration and build procedures</TITLE>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The meeting summary is also available on the Wiki:</FONT>
<BR><A HREF="https://wiki.openfabrics.org/tiki-index.php?page=Teleconf+01-29-2007"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">https://wiki.openfabrics.org/tiki-index.php?page=Teleconf+01-29-2007</FONT></U></A>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Tziporet</FONT>
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<P><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Abbreviated minutes / summary</FONT></B>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> * We are going for code freeze at Feb 1.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> * Alpha1 release will be ready at beginning of next week</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> o There are 3 components that are not yet ready for the code freeze (see details) </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> * Agreed on branching and tagging for the OFED 1.2 (see details)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> * Approved the way external components will be provided</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> * Decided to have a daily build for the full OFED package </FONT>
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<P><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Action Items:</FONT></B>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 1. Tziporet to verify QoS status with OSM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 2. Or to review all multicast patches in current build to make sure that all needed changes are in.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 3. Each git maintainer: open ofed_1_2 branch till Feb 1.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 4. Vlad to have a daily build of the full OFED package</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 5. Roland to send branch name from which to take libibverbs and libmthca </FONT>
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<P><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Detailed Minutes</FONT></B>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> * The following components are still under development (to be completed after alpha1):</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> o OSM: QoS and LASH routing</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> o RDS: integration to OFED is ongoing</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> o ipath: driver backport patches are not ready yet </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> * Bonding module will support only SLES10 and RHEL up3 for now. </FONT>
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<P><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Release tagging and branching:</FONT></B>
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<P><U><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Sources developed in OFA:</FONT></U>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 1. Each git owner will open a branch with the name ofed_1_2. This branch should be opened on Feb 1.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 2. Vlad will open a new directory /pub/ofed_1_2.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 3. All ofed_1_2 branches will be cloned to this directory. (Note: libibverbs and libmthca will be cloned from kernel.org for Roland's trees.)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 4. Any change that should be included in the next OFED package will be first check-in to the maintainer ofed_1_2 branch. A mail should be sent to Vlad (and cc the list) to pull this change.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 5. A tag will be set before any package is build. Tag name convention: ofed_1_2_<version> where version will be the suffix of OFED package (e.g. 1.2-alpha1)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 6. OFED release package will be built based on this tag.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 7. There will be a build script (as in OFED 1.1) to enable each owner to build the package for testing.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 8. A daily build of the OFED package will be provided on the OFA server </FONT>
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<P><U><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">MPI packages:</FONT></U>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 1. MPI packages are provided as source RPMs</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 2. Each MPI owner will have an account on the OFA server and will open a directory named ofed_1_2</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 3. The SRPM package will be placed in this directory, with version indication in the filename (e.g.ompi-1.2.1-xxx)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 4. There will be a file named latest.txt that will contain the package that should be taken in the OFED package </FONT>
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<P><U><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">External packages:</FONT></U>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Any other external packages that supplied as SRPs (e.g. bonding) and not source will use the same method as above.</FONT>
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