[openfabrics-ewg] Meeting Minutes - 3/20 Call

[Pramod Srivatsa (psrivats)]

Please reply with additions / corrections. 
 
1. Role for Chair:
    - Timely reports to the OF-BOD
    - Coordinate the interests of the group
    - Run the EWG meetings and setting the agenda
    - Same chair for 1st two releases
    - Rotate for every release after the 2nd one, based on company
alphabetical order
    - Vendors have the option to opt-out
    - Cisco (Shawn Hansen) will be chair: Unanimous
 
2. Role of the Release Coordinator:
    - Meet needs of members of the EWG
    - Which components go into each release
    - What is the release criteria for each component
    - What the schedule is for the releases
    - Rotate for every release after the 2nd one, based in company
alphabetical order
   - Silicon vendors only will be release coordinators
   - Mellanox (Tziporet) will be RC: 
 
3. OFRv1 vis-a-vis IBEDv1
    - Betsy: Requirement of IBEDv1 is not clear versus OFRv1
    - Matt: Go with two stacks versus three stacks (OF-development
branch, OF-release branch, IBED release); Having multiple production
stacks does not make sense for customers. 
    - Bryan: Can create OFR-RC2 with patches from Mellanox; Need to
review all the patches with Tziporet
    - EWG is a superset of OFR in the following way:
        - SDP: Michael Tsirkin will finish writing SDP (Not in mainline
kernel, may not forward binary compatible)
            - Option of having a beta of SDP on top of OFRC
        - RDS: No code in the OpenIB trunk
 
4. Opens on maintainers:
    - See Sujal's mail from March 16 (1:51PM) for the complete list
    - OpenMPI: Mellanox to sign open-mpi paper by March 27th.
B-maintainer decision will be deferred.
    - SDP: Mellanox will decide who the b-maintainer should be
    - MVAPICH: Need b-maintainer; Shawn will confirm
 
5. Next steps:
    - Discuss / decide point #3 above on e-mail
    - Setup call next week to close on today's discussion
 
-Pramod
 
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Pramod Srivatsa
Product Manager, SVBU
M: 408.203.6543
E: pramod.srivatsa at cisco.com <mailto:pramod.srivatsa at cisco.com> 
 
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