[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Re: RFC OFED-1.3 installation

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at dev.mellanox.co.il
Tue Jul 17 19:18:54 PDT 2007


> Quoting Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>:
> Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: RFC OFED-1.3 installation
> 
> On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 00:09 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > Quoting Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> > > Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: RFC OFED-1.3 installation
> > > 
> > >  > I don't really think we want customers to run beta code
> > > 
> > > What's the point of a beta then??
> > 
> > Donnu.
> > In previous OFED releases, we had "release candidates" rather than "beta".
> > Openfabrics members were running RCs and reporting issues on the list and in
> > bugzilla. Do you really ask your customers to do this for you?
> 
> Sure, as much as possible.  I generally don't recommend using it in
> production, but just as close as they can get to production is fine with
> me.  The more issues they find while I'm still actually working on it
> and making new revisions, the less issues they'll find after I stupidly
> think I'm done.

So,Roland's idea of sticking a date in RPM revision willwork, won't it?


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