[openfabrics-ewg] OpenFabrics Developer Summit at SC06, Tampa Nov 16 - 17

[Jeff Squyres]

A few comments:

1. It would be good to start at 3pm or later; there's still lots of  
non-OFA people to see/meet on Thursday afternoon.

2. Is there going to be an OFED 1.3, or are we going straight to 2.0?

3. Regardless of what the version number is going to be, I would very  
much like to see a sizeable discussion about the OFED process for  
this version.  This should include topics such as (but not be limited  
to):

     - what are the exact features that will be in this series  
(delineated into categories such as "blockers", "would like to have",  
and "if we have time", etc.)
     - what the testing matrix is going to be (who is testing what,  
exactly)
     - what the release criteria are (probably strongly related to  
the testing matrix)
     - what the dates are (development, testing, estimated release)
     - a plan for integrating with RHEL / SLES

In general, I would very much like to see the community to come up  
with a published plan for the next version series.

I'm not entirely sure, but this discussion could fit into the  
Thursday 18:00-end and Friday start-noon discussions.  Is this what  
was intended?  If so, it would be great to see the above points  
worked into the agenda.

4. Discussion / plan for moving to the new OFA server.


On Oct 15, 2006, at 5:02 PM, Bill Boas wrote:

> To all in the OpenFabrics Community
>
>
>
> We will be holding our first Developer Summit in the Tampa  
> Convention Center courtesy of SC06 starting at 1.30PM in Room 17 on  
> Thursday November 16, 2006. On Friday November 17, we will start in  
> Room 13 at 8.00 AM and continue till 5.00PM. We have had to  
> schedule into these time slots because no other usable space is  
> available at any other times during the week of SC06!
>
>
>
> OpenFabrics will cater food and beverages for afternoon break and  
> supper on Thursday, breakfast, lunch and two breaks on Friday. We  
> will set up a registration site at Acteva to collect $$ to cover  
> our out of pocket expenses – I’ll email out the URL for that site  
> in the next day or two.
>
>
>
> Please review attached Strawman purposes, suggested attendees and  
> agenda. Any changes or comments, please email them to the community  
> for all to comment on please.
>
>
>
> The Summit has several dimensions and themes throughout our work  
> there:
>
> 1) – consistency and robustness of the Linux and Windows software  
> stacks for Release 2.0 of OpenFabrics;
>
> 2) - feature selection, development resources and timelines for  
> Release 2.0;
>
> 3) - activities, features and processes of the Enterprise Working  
> Group on OFED 1.x until Release 2.0 is ready hand-off to the EWG;
>
> 4) – enhancing the resources of the EWG to be ready for 2.0 it so  
> that it may be subsequently be distributed as OFED 2.0. and adopted  
> by the OpenFabrics vendor and customer communities for production use.
>
>
>
> This is a far too much work for just a day and half! PLEASE START  
> NOW exchanging ideas for additional features, contact peer  
> engineers from companies and customers to discuss work sizing,  
> development resources, identify volunteer developers for items so  
> that when we meet on the 16th we’re not starting from a blank sheet!
>
>
>
> Sujal Das, Johann George, Matt Leininger, Pramod Srivatsa, Hal  
> Rosenstock, Tom Tucker and Bob Woodruff are leading the pre- 
> meeting, STRAWMAN collation of requirements, feature  
> prioritization, developer assignments, sizing and processes so that  
> we have the list largely complete prior to the meeting and people  
> know has already volunteered for items from the list.
>
>
>
> Bill Boas
>
> VP, Business Development | System Fabric Works
>
> bboas at systemfabricworks.com | 510-375-8840
>
>
>
> <Tampa Convention Center Layout.pdf>
> <SC06_OFA_Developer_Summit_Strawman_10_15_06.ppt>
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Jeff Squyres
Server Virtualization Business Unit
Cisco Systems