[openfabrics-ewg] OFED procedures

[Aviram Gutman]

Jeff,
As far as I remember we agreed to have it after the release. Lets do it 
the right after the release.

Aviram

Jeff Squyres wrote:
> The last mail that I saw about having a teleconference about OFED procedures
> indicated that 4 Oct would be a good day to have it.  So I'm going to take
> the liberty of setting up a dialin for that day: noon US Eastern time, 9am
> US Pacific, 6pm Israel.  E-mail coming shortly with the details.
>
> Here's some suggestions that I'd like to discuss:
>
> 1. Have a planning / decision meeting for a given version of OFED
>    (e.g., it's time to have the OFED 1.2 meeting in the Very Near
>    Future).  Decide things like:
>
>    - What are the features, goals, dates for the series?
>    - What drives the release (e.g., features or dates)?
>
> 2. Agree upon OFED development procedures.  Discuss things like:
>
>    - Where non-version-specific development should occur and how it
>      should happen (e-mailing patches around is *not* preferred)
>    - The procedure for how patches are accepted into/rejected from the
>      main-line OFED code base
>    - How release branches are made
>    - How release tarballs are made (should be automated)
>
> 3. Have a standing OFED teleconference every N weeks that needs to be
>    actively cancelled if there is nothing to discuss.  Appoint someone
>    to create and distribute agendas, keep and publish minutes, etc.
>
> X. *All* of the above information should be documented, continually
>    updated, and published in a public place (SVN?  Git?  The OFA web
>    site?  A wiki?  Doesn't really matter -- but e-mailing the list is
>    not sufficient).
>
>