[openfabrics-ewg] What comes after RC4?

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 19:58, Matt Leininger wrote:
> 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).

Some had also asked for partition support in OpenSM as well (which is
currently on the trunk only). This would rule that out but does makes
sense from normal release criteria. Is there going to be OFED 1.1 ? If
so, when will it's schedule be determined ?

-- Hal

> 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
> 
> 
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