[Ofa_boardplus] Jason's draft preso to the Linux Plumbers' Conference

[Woodruff, Robert J]

>I don't think there's serious consideration of repurposing much less stopping
> the logo program. This is, IMHO, part of, if not THE foundation for the OFA.
>The important discussions Susan is leading now have to do with ways we can
> strengthen the program.

Perhaps a better way to word this is not to say, repurpose, but rather expand the testing and logo
program. For example have had some discussions in having an OFI provider certification/compliance program
that people could use to test their OFI providers to make sure they are semantically correct.
We have also had some discussions with the Linux distros about possibly using in-box OFS in the logo program
in addition to or in place of using the community OFED for interop testing.

My 2 cents.

woody


From: Ofa_boardplus [mailto:ofa_boardplus-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Jim Ryan
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2017 11:56 AM
To: ofa_boardplus at lists.openfabrics.org, <ofa_boardplus at lists.openfabrics.org>
Subject: [Ofa_boardplus] Jason's draft preso to the Linux Plumbers' Conference

I'm going to offer a few points, some of which are what I'd call "style points", many of which, you'll see, you couldn't possibly know.

I want to take a minute to thank you for this excellent work. I'm extremely pleased to see you can describe yourself as a "Director at Large". I have to believe it's going to have an impact in general and possibly specifically at this event.

Slide   Comment
1 "OpenFabrics" without a space -- see I tried to foreshadow some of these would be
   stunningly important ;^))

3 The correct name is University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory,
   abbreviated UNH-IOL

4 Consider adding the OFA does not do spec development. It relies on specs from
   other orgs chartered to do this. We develop, test, etc. code based on such specs

5 I heard Paul question the "disband" comment and certainly it has been mentioned.
   My SUGGESTION would be something along the lines of a heading "seriously
   talking about" and removing this bullet. While it has been mentioned, no one is
   seriously considering doing this. This could apply to other bullets as well, obviously.

12 I don't think there's serious consideration of repurposing much less stopping
     the logo program. This is, IMHO, part of, if not THE foundation for the OFA.
     The important discussions Susan is leading now have to do with ways we can
     strengthen the program
.
.
.
Again, plz take these as constructive comments. What you're doing here is very important and a huge value to the OFA

best, Jim

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