[ewg] RFC: Splitting of the management git tree in Open Fabrics

[Ira Weiny]

On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 13:36:34 -0700
Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ira,
> 
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Ira Weiny <weiny2 at llnl.gov> wrote:
> > As I briefly mentioned in an email to Yevgeny regarding libibumad ABI's; I
> > believe it is time to break up the management git tree.
> 
> I think these are separate issues. What are you trying to achieve by
> doing this ?

Yes they are separate issues.  That is why I started this thread.

When I said "I think it is time to break up the management git tree" I was
thinking along the lines that umad and mad are libraries used by tools outside
of OpenSM and infiniband-diags.  As such I think it would be easier to
maintain them as separate trees.  This includes maintaining branches and
versions with consistent ABI's.

Ira

> 
> -- Hal
> 
> > With GA of OFED 1.5.2 scheduled for Sept 13, I would like to request comments
> > from the community about the following split after that GA.
> >
> > On openfabrics.org/git split management.git into the following trees.
> >
> > openfabrics.org/git/infiniband-diags.git
> > openfabrics.org/git/libibumad.git
> > openfabrics.org/git/libibmad.git
> > openfabrics.org/git/opensm.git
> >
> > Sasha can populate those from the current management tree.  We believe there
> > are git commands which will do this without losing any history from the git
> > trees.
> >
> > Vlad, what changes would you have to make in the OFED build to accommodate
> > these packages being in separate git trees?
> >
> > Any other concerns or comments?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ira
> >
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> > Ira Weiny
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> > Lawrence Livermore National Lab
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> > weiny2 at llnl.gov
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Ira Weiny
Math Programmer/Computer Scientist
Lawrence Livermore National Lab
925-423-8008
weiny2 at llnl.gov