[ewg] RE: [ofa-general] OFED 1.3 Alpha release is available

[Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen)]

> >> 4. SDP - these are not yet in the alpha release
> >>    o Keep-alive
> >>    o Asynch IO
> >>    o Send Zero Copy
> >>     
> >
> > If it didn't make it into alpha, perhaps it should not go 
> into 1.3, so
> > we can hold the release date better?
> >   
> Since the code is running and tested and Jim just has not succeed to 
> arrange it all in the git on time I think it should be in
> I cc Jim so he can answer in more details on the status.

I don't object to it going in, but new features often take some time to
stabilize (has the new SDP been tested on ppc64, for example?), so any
new major features going in beyond this point have a high probability of
delaying the release.

Scott