[ofa-general] Re: [ewg] New features for OFED 1.4

[Doug Ledford]

On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 18:08 +0200, Tziporet Koren wrote:
> Johann George wrote:
> > Tziporet, 
> >
> >   
> >> So we should assess how close we are to that goal and how we can put
> >> OFED out of business.
> >>     
> >
> > Could you cover this topic during your session on "OFED 1.3: Procedure
> > and Review"?  It seems that this would be the right place to bring it
> > up and we can attempt to extend your session to allow for it.
> >
> >   
> I think its more appropriate in the OFED 1.4 session
> But maybe instead of talking about 1.3 status (which everybody can see 
> from the weekly meeting reports) I should talk about OFED in the future
> 
> However I need some input from the distros

Splitting the RPMs up was a *huge* step in the right direction.  I think
my last emails on the topic relayed why we aren't able to just directly
import spec files over and over again, so once we have released tarballs
and a single spec import (well, if ever on the spec import, a lot of
times we just write our own that does what we want), then we are good.
Beyond that, future thinking, is just that a collection of known
interoperable tarballs is best for us.  So, as Roland has mentioned many
time, what's needed from me is a release, not a distribution.  And the
release need only consist of:

dapl-2.0.3 + dapl-1.2.2 + ibverbs-1.1 + mthca-1.0.4 + blah, blah, blah
are all known to work properly together.  From that point, I just grab
the appropriate tarballs that contain the releases mentioned, and I
build them all through the build system and that's our release cycle.

> Tziporet
> 
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