[openfabrics-ewg] [openib-general] Reminder: OFED 1.2

[Tziporet Koren]

Jeff Squyres wrote:
> FWIW, having git's for the MPI implementations was asked for on the  
> call yesterday (by Tziporet, IIRC?).  The rationale, as I understood  
> it, was threefold:
>
> 1. Putting the MPI release in git provides a level of OFED-specific  
> history and version control.  This was explicitly stated on the call  
> yesterday.
>
> 2. MPI's have concrete "releases" to OFED just like all other ULP's,  
> especially if there is any OFED-specific packaging involved in the  
> MPI's release.  This was not stated on the call, but it makes sense  
> to me.
>
> 3. Putting everything in git makes it nicely uniform for OFED to be  
> assembled.  This was not stated on the call, and I'm sure it's not a  
> requirement, but it is a little nice to be uniform when assembling  
> OFED (my $0.02).
>
> 4. We used to put the MPI releases in SVN (tarball or SRPM) for prior  
> OFED release processes, so putting them in a git seems to parallel  
> that procedure.
>
> I don't really care one way or another; this was just my  
> understanding of why it was requested.
>
>
>   
Hi,
Jeff is correct - I requested this from the reasons above.

Tziporet