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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello Sean and fellow list users,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m starting to think about this effort in very high-level broad brushstrokes and I have some administrative/bookkeeping questions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-- Venue for Discussion<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am certain that I am going to want to have a lot of back and forth discussions about this task. How you would like to handle that? I imagine it could be:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:2.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">just messages on this list; or<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:2.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">a dedicated issue in the GitHub repository; or<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:2.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">something else entirely.<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My thinking was #2, but I’m happy to do whatever makes sense for the project.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-- Required Testing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am aware of the existence of fabtests, but those seem like more a set of tools for end users to familiarize themselves with the library and check for correct installation/configuration. I’m curious to know if you have any requirements
and/or guidelines for what testing should be done for new code. Unit tests? Regression tests? Integration tests? Etc.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Obviously, code I submit will work for my use case, however that seems like a bare minimum and I feel like I should aspire to more than just that. Just looking for some guidance about expectations for testing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-- Earliest Notions of an Approach to the Problem<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I could imagine this effort being directed in one of several directions and was interested in your opinion on the pros and cons of them and what direction you think I ought to head. We could:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">completely scrap the existing netdir provider and start over with something new;<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">keep the existing netdir provider and augment it with some sort of verbs compatibility setting via an environment variable;<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">keep the existing netdir provider and create a new one along side it, e.g. ndverbs, that will play well with the verbs provider running on Linux;<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">port libibverbs to Windows/NetworkDirect and theoretically use the libfabric verbs provider on both Linux and Windows;<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">something I haven’t even contemplated.<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kind Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Derek<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Derek Shinaberry<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Senior Software Engineer, Platform Software<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Canon Medical Research USA, Inc. <br>
706 N. Deerpath Drive, Vernon Hills, IL 60061, USA<br>
<a href="http://www.research.us.medical.canon/"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:#0563C1">www.</span><span style="color:#0563C1">research.us.medical.canon</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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