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

Bob Woodruff robert.j.woodruff at intel.com
Wed Apr 5 13:50:07 PDT 2006


Roland wrote,

    Todd> But both are sanctioned by OpenFabrics; IBED by the EWG and
    Todd> Release 1.0 directly by the board.  With the establishment
    Todd> of the EWG by the OpenFabrics board the consortium of
    Todd> vendors hardening the stack became an arm of Open Fabrics.
    Todd> If they're both sanctioned by OpenFabrics I don't see why
    Todd> both can't, eventually, be a single release process.

>Yes, in my opinion (emphatically not speaking for Cisco here) it was a
>mistake to make IBED part of OF.  Unfortunately people saw IBED as
>competitive rather than complementary and so politics forced it to
>be embraced by OF.

> - R.

Putting my software ISV hat (Intel MPI)on, we'd really like to only 
have to test with one infiniband stack. 



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