[openfabrics-ewg] What comes after RC4?

[Tziporet Koren]

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).  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
>
>
>   
I will send a separate mail with full OFED release plan, taking to 
account all the above concerns.

Tziporet