[openfabrics-ewg] What comes after RC4?

[Yaron Segev]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org [mailto:openfabrics-ewg-
> bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Hal Rosenstock
> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 8:44 AM
> To: Matt L. Leininger
> Cc: openfabrics-ewg at openib.org
> Subject: Re: [openfabrics-ewg] What comes after RC4?
> 
> > >
> >   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

We should have been in a code freeze stage by now. I think we'll have to
postpone partitioning support for 1.1 (or later).

-- Yaron

> 
> > 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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