[openfabrics-ewg] Toward IBED RC3

[Florin, Reini]

I need to disagree somewhat with Matt, yes what was agreed to during the BOD meeting was that the EWG would use the 1.0 RC branch as a starting point..... but it seems like many people seem to think that this was the overriding objective of establishing the EWG ..... which is incorrect and not the primary objective that the BOD approved ..... the primary objectives for the EWG that the BOD approved was to create and maintain a single, multivendor supported, enterprise class OpenFabrics distribution for the end user market and to have a first distribution available as soon as possible. What ever Rel. branch or branches are used to accomplish this should be a subordinate objective.

I am not qualified to say what the Rel. candidate strategy should be to support the first distribution, I will leave this up to the technical people to decide, but I am disturbed by the continued discussion about what branch to use as if this was the primary objective of the EWG. The question we should be asking ourselves is ... is using 1.0 RC the best approach to meeting the primary objectives? ..... and if some people believe it is not it should warrant further debate on whether there are other better approaches rather than squashing dialog. 


Reini Florin


-----Original Message-----
From: openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org
[mailto:openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org]On Behalf Of Matt Leininger
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 2:33 PM
To: Sujal Das
Cc: Openfabrics-ewg at openib.org
Subject: RE: [openfabrics-ewg] Toward IBED RC3


Folks, the OpenFabrics Board of Directors agreed this working group
should proceed by starting with the current 1.0 RC branch.  If you have
a problem with that then we have to go back to the BOD. 

So Sujal...yes we did agree on this starting point.  Perhaps you don't
like it, but that's the way it's going to be.   

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 10:38 -0800, Sujal Das wrote:
> As I recall, we did not agree on this topic in the meeting, but left
> it for Tziporet to work out the technical feasibility of doing this,
> through discussions with Bryan.  
> 
> Re: what was agreed in the BOD meeting - if you look at Shawn's
> slides, the agreement was for the EWG to start with the OpenFabrics
> 1.0 RC. 
 
  Which is the same thing as the 1.0 RC branch that Byran et. al. have
been working on.  That is what the board agreed to.  Why does Mellanox
keep making this such an issue.  Get over it and move on.   Send Byran
patches to fix what is wrong in the 1.0 RC branch.  

  - Matt

> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Betsy Zeller [mailto:betsy at pathscale.com]  
> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 10:30 AM 
> To: Tziporet Koren 
> Cc: Openfabrics-ewg at openib.org 
> Subject: Re: [openfabrics-ewg] Toward IBED RC3
> 
> Tziporet - you missed last weeks meeting where we agreed that there 
> would be one OpenFabrics 1.0 release, based off the RC1 tree Bryan 
> built, designed to meet the needs of EWG. We agreed not to go ahead
> with 
> separate EWG and OpenFabrics 1.0 releases.
> 
> I know Bryan has a meeting scheduled with you Wednesday morning to 
> discuss which patches need to be migrated into the RC1 tree to make
> sure 
> everything from the EWG RC1 is covered. The two of you should
> coordinate 
> to determine how to achieve this before another release candidate is 
> issued.
> 
> Regards, Betsy
> 
> On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 15:12 +0200, Tziporet Koren wrote: 
> > Hi all, 
> >  
> >   
> >  
> > I wish to progress our release and have RC3 early next week (3 or 4 
> > April). 
> >  
> >   
> >  
> > Main changes from RC2 to RC3: 
> >  
> >      1. Bug fixes according to problems reported 
> >      2. OpenMPI 
> >      3. Pathscale (ipath) driver 
> >      4. uDAPL 
> >      5. ibis included 
> >      6. Standard network configuration 
> >  
> >   
> >  
> > In order to do this I wish to have the coordinators meeting on this 
> > Thursday at 7:30am PST as we agreed. 
> >  
> > The coordinators meeting should include: 
> >  
> > Moni - Voltaire 
> >  
> > Kamen - Cisco 
> >  
> > Todd - SilverStorm 
> >  
> > Bryan - Pathscale 
> >  
> > Vlad - Mellanox 
> >  
> > Tziporet - Mellanox 
> >  
> >   
> >  
> > If you think more people should attend please let me know. 
> >  
> >   
> >  
> > Issues to close: 
> >  
> >      1. Sources repository (I hope to close this with Bryan before
> and 
> >         come with proposal) 
> >      2. OpenMPI - package integration and requirements from the 
> >         install 
> >      3. Fedora C5 is out - do we need to support it? 
> >  
> >   
> >  
> > Status update: 
> >  
> >      1. RC2 testing status of all companies 
> >      2. Compilation of RDS  
> >      3. Compilation of iSER 
> >      4. SRP development 
> >      5. SDP development 
> >  
> >   
> >  
> > Please send more agenda items if you have 
> >  
> >   
> >  
> > Thanks, 
> >  
> > Tziporet 
> >  
> >  
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