[openib-general] Announcing the OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 15:02, Shawn Hansen (shahanse) wrote:

I have some questions about OFED:

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> Frequently Asked Questions
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> Q: Is OFED development happening in the open?
> 
> - Yes, OFED uses the OpenFabrics bugzilla for bug reporting, and all
> discussions can be viewed on the Enterprise Working Group mailing list.
> All OFED development is done on the 1.0 branch under the ibed directory.

How can that be ? The 1.0 branch contains no kernel code. Where is the
OFED kernel code kept ?

> Q: When bugs are found, how will they be fixed?
> 
> - Fixes to release candidates are coordinated by the OFED release
> coordinator and maintainers in a controlled fashion. Each bug found is
> first fixed on the trunk, and then merged into the release branch.

So there will never be a bug fixed on the 1.0 branch being merged back
to the trunk ? For various components, the trunk has diverged and is
ahead of the 1.0 branch.

> - Patches will be made available as RC updates, and fed back to
> OpenFabrics SVN continuously.

Can someone explain the OFED location layout in the OF svn tree ?

> - Availability of patches will not be gated by acceptance of patches
> into OpenFabrics SVN.

How do discrepancies in the accepted patches between OF and OFED get
resolved ?

-- Hal