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

[Matt Leininger]

On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 21:16 -0700, Sujal Das wrote:
> Thanks for the comments, Betsy.  Are you suggesting that all that be
> done before release 1.1 or soon after? 

  FWIW I'd suggest soon after the 1.1 release.  I just can't see us
getting an OFED-2.0-rc1 out before SC06 with the current process.  
> 
> Aviram, the minimum we can do asap is to publish the current process
> once again so that everyone is on the same page and can start
> reviewing it.

  That would be a great start.  I know most of us have seen this process
list before.  But it's worth reviewing again as a starting point.

  - Matt

> 
> Sujal
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org
> <openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org>
> To: Aviram Gutman <aviram at dev.mellanox.co.il>
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin; Hoang-Nam Nguyen <HNGUYEN at de.ibm.com>; Open
> Fabrics <openfabrics-ewg at openib.org>
> Sent: Mon Sep 18 20:02:56 2006
> Subject: Re: [openfabrics-ewg] Where do contribute new stuff to OFED
> scripts?
> 
> Aviram - we really shouldn't hold off on this discussion for a full
> month until Tziporet is back. At the time of her return, she can
> provide
> her insights and propose changes, but we really need to get this
> sorted
> out. There are a number of issues where the procedure is pretty opaque
> -
> there have been several cases of this just in today's discussion. For
> example, it is not immediately obvious which of the build scripts will
> build a source tarball, nor that the source is pulled from two
> different
> trees. Yes, we've been able to figure it all out by perusing old
> emails
> and asking some questions, but there has got to be an easier way.
> Also,
> though people do try to respond promptly to questions, the problem is
> exacerbated by the fact that we are all in different time zones.
> Things
> that should take minutes can take days instead.
> 
> It's also clear from the email discussions that there is some
> confusion
> over when and what the next release should be.
> 
> There's three steps to this, to be repeated as necessary
> 1) Publish the current process
> 2) Identify the areas that don't work for everyone they need to, and
> determine how to change them.
> 3) Document and publish in the updated process in a well known place.
> 
> We do need to start this discussion.
> 
> Betsy
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 19:38 +0300, Aviram Gutman wrote:
> 
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> > 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.
> >
> > I understand that Jeff has some issues that he wants to clear and we
> can
> > continue doing over the list or by a meeting that I prefer to have
> on
> > Oct-16 when Tziporet is back.
> >
> > Aviram
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