[ewg] OpenFabrics General MailList change impacts

[Bill Boas]

Or, Jeff, Roland,

The EWG is NOT the right list for general enquiries and help for users and
potential users of OpenFabrics software to get answers from the Openfabrics
Community as a whole be it about OFED, WinOF any of the upper level
protocols, iWARP, performance, etc. etc.

I always thought "general" was the wrong name for the original list, even
when we set it up, for what the original general list was used for - it
should have been "OF-Linux Dev@" or something like that. But at the time
those involved insisted there should be just one list for everything - later
we found that did not work for the Alliance with all its activities.

So now we have a Linux developers mail-list that has nothing in the name
that links it to OpenFabrics - was that deliberate?

With Microsoft joining the Alliance and Sun porting OFA verbs and ULPs to
Solaris, we have to recognize that there may become a world wide significant
community that is not a Linux community using Openfabrics software. 

Also as the use of OFA code including the Upper level services like iSCSI,
RDS, NFS, be it with Linux, Solaris or Windows grows the need to provide a
mechanism for general inquires and help will grow also.

The EWG list is for the work of developers, maintainers, testers of the OFED
Linux distribution in preparing testing and releasing next releases/versions
of OFED.

I think OpenFabrics-General is precisely a good name for the list that I
think we need.

Comments please?

Bill.

Bill Boas
VP, Bus Dev System Fabric Works
Exec Dir. OpenFabrics Alliance
510-375-8840
bboas at systemfabricworks.com
www.systemfabricworks.com
bill.boas at openfabrics.org
www.openfabrics.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Becker [mailto:Jeffrey.C.Becker at nasa.gov] 
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 9:55 AM
To: Or Gerlitz
Cc: bboas at systemfabricworks.com; 'Vladimir Sokolovsky'; 'Sujal Das';
'Jeffrey Scott'; OpenFabrics EWG
Subject: Re: [Fwd: FW: OFED installation question re-AltLinux]

Or Gerlitz wrote:
> Bill Boas wrote:
>   
>> Jeff, Please re-open openfabrics-general just as you describe. Tell the
developers on the linux-rdma list that we'd like them to subscribe, and that
we may from time to time forward an email to their list if we think it is
>> appropriate.
>>     
> Bill,
>
> I don't see any reason to revive the general list, it served the 
> developer community and now migrated to some other place. The question 
> raised in this thread and its like has nothing to do with development 
> and hence matches the ewg list.
>   

This makes sense. Although it seems like we should have a more
descriptive statement about ewg on the mail lists web page, so folks
know this is where to ask questions about OFED usage. Any takers? Thanks.

-jeff

> On top of that, the decisions on the mailing list definition / location 
> / move was never taken by a single individual sending an email to 
> another individual, but rather taken through a discussion in a work 
> group or over email. If you want to open/revive a mailing list, please 
> bring it somewhere and not over a private thread. BTW - some months ago 
> ofa opened bunch of "user mailing lists" without a single email sent 
> over them, so we already have too many mailing lists, aren't we?
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> Or.
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