[openfabrics-ewg] Re: How to generate IBEDreleasesusing 1.0branch

[Matt Leininger]

On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 11:11 -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Todd> I hesitate to say this, because it may be more difficult to
>     Todd> change anything at this point, but it would be preferable,
>     Todd> from my perspective, to have one release process.  This is
>     Todd> why I asked the question about the sanctioning of IBED.
>     Todd> Maybe the next release.
> 
> I think that trying to have a commercially supportable distribution
> come directly from OpenFabrics is both not feasible and actively bad
> for OpenFabrics and the industry.  Let the free software project focus
> on what it does best, and have it produce a release that is targeted
> at distributors, who can harden it and get it to customers.
> 
  RedHat and SuSE have already said they will need to depend upon the IB
community to harden the stack into something that is production ready.
So are you suggesting that we go back to letting each company do their
own version of OpenFabrics?  Then we go back to the days of having X IB
stacks each with different features.  I can hear the sales folks now "By
our equipment because we have a better IB stack".  That idea almost
killed IB once, and it could kill it again.

  - Matt