[ofa-general] RE: [ewg] RFC: Do we wish to take MPI out of OFED?

[Ryan, Jim]

Tziporet, there is some guidance on this question from the Bylaws:

"...ARTICLE 14.	MAINTENANCE OF AND MODIFICATION TO OPENFABRICS SOFTWARE STACKS

14.1	Updates.  By a majority vote, the Board or its designated Working Group may at any time update an OpenFabrics software stack for the sole purpose of making error corrections or updates (e.g. a subnet manager change, additional driver, or operating system release synchronization) that do not substantially alter or augment the functionality or capabilities of an OpenFabrics software stack. The Board or Working Group may publish such updates subject to the terms of Article 13. 

14.2	Modification.  Once an OpenFabrics software stack has been approved, published and released, any additions or alterations (but not updates) that substantially augment (e.g. a new transport, or operating system) the functionality and capability of such OpenFabrics software stack shall follow the procedures for approval of a Proposal in Article 12..."
 
However, as you may infer from the text, it also sort of bucks the question back to you. If the changes are characterized as "updates", it takes a simple majority of the EWG. If the changes are "modifications", the reference to section 12 requires a 2/3 majority.

We have an XWG meeting tomorrow. Would you like to discuss the question then?

Thanks, Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: ewg-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org [mailto:ewg-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Tziporet Koren
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 5:34 AM
To: Woodruff, Robert J
Cc: OpenFabrics General; EWG; Pavel Shamis (Pasha)
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] RE: [ewg] RFC: Do we wish to take MPI out of OFED?

Woodruff, Robert J wrote:
> I would agree, there is clearly no consensus on this one and
> I do not thing there is going to be.
> I think there has probably been enough discussion on this one. We can
> re-discuss it at the next EWG meeting, but I would say that given
> that lack of consensus, we should probably leave OFED as is,
> with the MPIs included. 
>
>
>
>   
I will bring this subject again in our next EWG meeting.
I have a procedural question:
Till now we got all our decisions by consensus.
Since there is no consensus on this subject - should we keep things as 
they are today or vote on the two options?
If we vote - what should be the voting procedure?

Tziporet

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