[ewg] RE: RHEL 5.3 and OFED 1.4.x

[Woodruff, Robert J]

Personally I do not have a problem with including it, since MPI is
an isolated component and does not effect the core stack,
but I thought that we had discussed in Sonoma last year
not including major new features in point releases to
reduce the QA that is needed. And, in general I think that
is the way that kernel.org works, point releases are just for
bug fixes.

In any case, lets discuss it again in the EWG on Monday.

woody
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Squyres [mailto:jsquyres at cisco.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 2:17 PM
To: Steve Wise
Cc: Woodruff, Robert J; general at lists.openfabrics.org; ewg at lists.openfabrics.org
Subject: Re: [ewg] RE: RHEL 5.3 and OFED 1.4.x

Also, FWIW, it has been discussed (and agreed, I thought) to include  
OMPI v1.3 in a 1.4.x release.


On Jan 22, 2009, at 5:07 PM, Steve Wise wrote:

>
> I understand the desire to not release new features in a point  
> release, but at the same time, these features are ready or near  
> ready now.  And prior features have definitely been released in  
> point releases.  (connectX for example).  Another key point is that  
> these features do not need the kernel rebase that will happen with  
> ofed-1.5, which will take months...
>
> Just more thoughts.  :)
>
> Steve.
>
>
> Woodruff, Robert J wrote:
>> I think that we need to discuss this in the EWG meeting.
>> In the past I think that we have agreed to only do bug fixes
>> in point release and not add major new features.
>> If we do want to include the new MPI, then perhaps we should call
>> it 1.5 and pull in the schedule for 1.5.   Just a thought.
>>
>> woody
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Steve Wise [mailto:swise at opengridcomputing.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 1:46 PM
>> To: John Russo
>> Cc: Woodruff, Robert J; general at lists.openfabrics.org; ewg at lists.openfabrics.org
>> Subject: Re: [ewg] RE: RHEL 5.3 and OFED 1.4.x
>>
>> I think releasing OMPI-1.3 with iWARP support is also good  
>> justification.
>>
>> And there are RDS issues with ofed-1.4 even over IB that I think will
>> add to justification.
>>
>>
>> John Russo wrote:
>>
>>> I understand but I think that this is another consideration that  
>>> should be factored in.  Even if there are no "critical" PRs to  
>>> fix, the introduction of RHEL 5.3 (along with less critical PRs)  
>>> may be enough justification.
>>>
>>> I simply want to plant the seed in everyone's mind before our next  
>>> meeting.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Woodruff, Robert J [mailto:robert.j.woodruff at intel.com]
>>> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 3:44 PM
>>> To: John Russo; general at lists.openfabrics.org
>>> Cc: ewg at lists.openfabrics.org
>>> Subject: RE: RHEL 5.3 and OFED 1.4.x
>>>
>>> In the last EWG meeting, we discussed waiting a month or so and  
>>> seeing what kind of bugs
>>> were reported against 1.4 to determine if a 1.4.1 release was  
>>> needed.
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>>
>>> From: general-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org [mailto:general-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org 
>>> ] On Behalf Of John Russo
>>> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 12:37 PM
>>> To: general at lists.openfabrics.org
>>> Subject: [ofa-general] RHEL 5.3 and OFED 1.4.x
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Does the release of RHEL 5.3 create any additional justification  
>>> for a maintenance release of OFED (1.4.1) to be generated?  I am  
>>> already hearing requests for an OFED release that will support it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> John Russo
>>>
>>> QLogic
>>>
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Jeff Squyres
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