[Openib-promoters] Re: [openib-general] Next workshop dates? Ideas for agenda???

[Roland Dreier]

    Bill> With respect to "release" of OpenIB rel 1.0, did Doug
    Bill> Ledford effectively do that a week or two ago?

No, Doug put a snapshot of the OpenIB tree into a RHEL update, which
is quite a different thing.

    Bill> I think those of us ( including me) who originally thought
    Bill> OpenIB was actually going be an organization that released
    Bill> and supported code (like RedHat, say) had got it wrong. Now
    Bill> I believe that when a Linux distribution, an IB company or a
    Bill> Tier One OEM decides that is a version of the code that they
    Bill> will support, then that is a "release". OpenIB may be best
    Bill> utilized to try to achieve some consistency in timeframe and
    Bill> content amongst those who wish to "release and support" the
    Bill> code???

I think the model that projects like the Linux kernel, Gnome, KDE,
Mozilla, et al follow is a good one: the project releases well-defined
packages with a known version number, which distributors can then base
their packages on (adding value through QA, bug fixes, additional
functionality, or whatever else they can think of).

For example, I know that my Ubuntu desktop ships with Gnome version
2.10, so even though Ubuntu has done a fair bit of customization, I
know basically what to expect.

 - R.