[openib-general] Dusting off OpenIB Bugzilla

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 12:34, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> I am reviving http://www.openib.org/bugzilla this morning, as part of
> getting ready for 1.0rc1.
> 
> If you're unfamiliar with Bugzilla, its view of the world has two parts:
> products and components.  A product can have multiple components.
> 
> Right now, there's only one product defined in OpenIB's Bugzilla,
> "OpenIB".  It has a few components defined, such as SDP, mthca driver
> support, and so on.
> 
> A parenthetical note:
> 
>         It might make more logical sense to get rid of the OpenIB
>         product and move the current components up to product status.
>         This would let us have a Mellanox product that had driver and
>         userspace components, for example.
>         
>         However, I'm not sure this is worth the effort, so I propose to
>         just leave the layout as it is for now, and we can reorganise
>         the bug database if it ends up getting heavy use.
> 
> Now back to our regular scheduled discussion: I need to create new
> components, and give them sensible default owners.
> 
> The current components are:
> 
>         Access Layer	InfiniBand Access Layer
>         DAPL		Direct Access Programming Library
>         IPoIB		IP over InfiniBand
>         OpenSM		Subnet Manager
>         SDP		Sockets Direct Protocol
>         SRP		SCSI Remote Protocol
>         ipath driver	PathScale InfiniPath driver
>         mthca driver	Mellanox HCA driver

Diagnostics too ?

> I have no idea what "InfiniBand Access Layer" is supposed to be -
> perhaps verbs?  This needs a more meaningful name.
> 
> Most of the components above have a default owner of
> bugzilla at openib.org, which is a bit confusing (where does that mail go?
> I don't know).  I'd prefer to have humans be the default owners.
> 
> To that end, I've set up Hal as the OpenSM owner, and myself as the
> ipath owner.  If you think you should logically own a component, please
> let me know.  Just create a Bugzilla account for yourself and tell me
> what email address you're using.
> 
> Other components that I can think of that need adding:
> 
>         ehca driver	IBM HCA driver
>         iSER		iSCSI Extensions for RDMA
>         librdmacm	RDMA connection management library
>         Verbs		Use this name instead of "Access Layer"?
> 
> I don't know if MVAPICH really belongs in OpenIB Bugzilla.  Opinions?
> 
> 	<b