[ofa-general] RE: OFA website edits

[Arlin Davis]

Maintainers: please review the following proposal regarding new public 
download locations/website links and respond. This request originated 
from xwg.

http://lists.openfabrics.org/pipermail/xwg/2007-June/000018.html

Thanks.

> Arlin Davis wrote:
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>> The proposal was attempting to come up with a method to automatically 
>> link to a package and description file from the download webpage. I 
>> have no problem
>> targeting http://openfabrics.org/downloads as long as we come up with 
>> a way for the webpage to correlate a description with a package 
>> without hand coding the links everytime. We need to come up with a 
>> method for automatic links to keep our download webpage updated and 
>> complete.
>>
>> What if we add a directory for each project under downloads and 
>> provide a README for a description? Other suggestions?
>>
> Here is a stab at what we have today for discussion purposes:
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> Linux  Libraries:
>    - libibverbs -http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/       - 
> librdmacm -  http://www.openfabrics.org/~shefty/
>    - dapl  - http://www.openfabrics.org/~ardavis/
>    - management -http://www.openfabrics.org/~halr/   OFED Linux:
>    - OFED 1.2 release - 
> http://www.openfabrics.org/builds/ofed-1.2/release/OFED-1.2.tgz
>    - OFED 1.2 binary RPMs for SLES 9.0, SLES 10 SP1, RHEL 4.0 U5  and 
> RHEL 5.0
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> http://www.openfabrics.org/builds/ofed-1.2/release/OFED-1.2-RPMS/      
> - OFED connectx release - 
> _http://www.openfabrics.org/builds/connectx/release/_
> OFED Linux Archives:
>    - SLES 10 OFED 1.0 RPMS - http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/     
> - OFED 1.1 release - 
> https://svn.openfabrics.org/svn/openib/gen2/branches/1.1/ofed/releases/
>    - OFED 1.0 release - 
> https://svn.openfabrics.org/svn/openib/gen2/branches/1.0/ofed/releases/
> WinOF for windows:
>    WinOF 1.0 release - http://www.oprnfabrics.org/~ardavis/WinOF 
> 1.0/WinOF_1-0.zip
>    WinOF source - svn://openib.tc.cornell.edu
>     WinOF faq - 
> https://wiki.openfabrics.org/tiki-index.php?page=OpenIB+Windows
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> I would like to propose adding project directories under 
> http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/  where appropriate and give 
> maintainers access. For example:
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> http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/verbs (rdreier)
> http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/rdmacm (shefty)
> http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/dapl (ardavis)
> http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/management (sashak)
> http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED (vlad) 
> http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/WinOF (ardavis)
> http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/archives (vlad) ??
> etc...
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> Each of these would contain a README that details the contents of the 
> directory along with WEB_README that provides a short description for 
> the webpage. Jeff could then automatically parse for directories under 
> downloads and if it contains WEB_README add a webpage link to the 
> directory along with the short description.
>
> Jeff, is this possible?
>
> comments?
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> -arlin
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