[openfabrics-ewg] What comes after RC4?

[Matt Leininger]

On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 16:44 -0700, Betsy Zeller wrote:
> RC4 is scheduled for release next Monday, May 1. From the emails I've
> seen, it sounds as though this will include features such as a largely
> updated version of SDP, a different version of Open MPI, some install
> fixes, and perhaps an updated version of RDS. And, it looks as though
> there are some bugs open still in Bugzilla.
> 
> This all suggests that we might want to plan on an RC5. What do others
> think about this? And, if we plan for RC5, when should it be scheduled?
> 
  There does seem to be a lot of changes planned for RC4.  We have a new
version of Open-MPI, a lot of new SDP features, new RDS code, and a few
other things.  I think an RC5 makes sense.  We can't go putting a lot of
changes into the last RC so why not use RC4 to get the latest updates
and then have RC5 for only bug fixes (no new features).  I guess we'd
have the typical 2 weeks between RC4 and RC5, then maybe a week or two
between RC5 and OFED-1.0.  I guess the timing just depends on how many
bugs are found.

  By the way, what are the release criteria for the final OFED-1.0?
Maybe there is a doc out there, but I haven't seen it.  

  Relating to RDS, would having another RC round also help get more of
the RDS features into OFED-1.0 that Oracle is looking for?

  Thanks,

	- Matt