[openfabrics-ewg] Where do contribute new stuff to OFED scripts?

[Sujal Das]

Hi Matt et al,

Based on recent discussions in EWG, it looks like some aspects of the
release process and related communication are not working effectively
for all EWG members.  We apologize if there have been instances where we
(as Mellanox) have not been sensitive to such situations.  

I hope we all agree that the goal has been to create an OFED 1.1 release
that is acceptable to all EWG members in terms of what is supported and
when.  When there are schedule pressures, sometimes existing processes
tend to break.  I think OFED 1.0 worked well.  The timeframe for OFED
1.1 has been comparatively shorter and this is probably causing the
currently defined processes to buckle in some areas.  We need to fix
those.

Every release is a learning vehicle for us and we have learnt some new
things with release 1.1 that we need to fix.  Since release 1.1 is due
soon, I would propose we have a post mortem session and future steps
discussion after release 1.1 is completed and after Tziporet arrives
back from her vacation.  I hope this is acceptable to the community.

Together, we will fix the process for a smoother next release.

Best regards,

Sujal 

-----Original Message-----
From: openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org
[mailto:openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Matt Leininger
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 9:54 AM
To: Aviram Gutman
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin; Hoang-Nam Nguyen; Open Fabrics
Subject: Re: [openfabrics-ewg] Where do contribute new stuff to OFED
scripts?

On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 19:38 +0300, Aviram Gutman wrote:
> Matt Leininger wrote:
> >>     
> >
> >   
> I disagree. Tziporet as the release maintainer published few times a 
> schedule. The feature set for this release was published more then a 
> month ago.Since not all EWG members finished their testing before RC4,

> there was a need for RC5 and RC6. Betsy asked for RC6 on Wed and we
will 
> follow that. Hopefully this is the last RC and we can go with last
round 
> of testing and release next week.

 As a real world customer my concern is that Mellanox thinks everything
is fine, yet other member companies don't understand the process.
Mellanox can preach to me all day, but that won't make you right. 

 We can push through OFED-1.1 release, but we need to make this process
much clearer to non-Mellanox companies and customers.

 If Mellanox can't see what's wrong that maybe that is motivation enough
for others to change the process.  

  - Matt



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