[Ofa_boardplus] OFA Repo and Maintainer List cleanup

[Jason Gunthorpe]

Might be Mellanox, I've asked people who might know.

Jason

On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 07:35:13PM +0000, Coulter, Susan K wrote:
>    Any idea who actually maintains ibutils ?
> 
>    Would love to remove this entire page.
> 
>    On May 17, 2018, at 1:23 PM, Jason Gunthorpe <[1]jgg at ziepe.ca> wrote:
> 
>    libvmw_pvrdma is already part of rdma-core these days
>    libscif is a 'verbs provider' and is incompatible with rdma-core, so
>    it is basically useless for OFA. Recommend to remove it too.
>    That leaves only two things.. DAPL is basically a dead project
>    superceeded by libfabric. It will stop being relavent in two years I
>    suspect.
>    The same excercies should be done on the windows side. AFAIK 'OFED for
>    Windows' and related is completely dead and should be removed too.
>    Jason
>    On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 07:11:07PM +0000, Coulter, Susan K wrote:
> 
>        Folks,
>        This has been a long time coming … we need to remove old, obsolete
>        cruft from the OFA “repo”.
>        Please review the attached document - it has 2 sections.
>        1.  A list of the directories available from the "OpenFabrics
>      Software”
>        page.
>        That page is a quick link from the OFA home page, so easy to get
>      to and
>        therefore prone to confuse.
>        I am recommending all but 3 of those directories should be
>      removed.
>        If we can find a better place for the 3 that seem current - that
>      would
>        be great.
>        ( since there is no “OpenFabrics Software” - and that whole page
>      needs
>        a major upgrade )
>        2.  A list of Maintainers.
>        We should either review and insure correctness of this list - or
>      remove
>        it entirely.
>        Any feedback is appreciated.
>        Thanx.
>        ================================
>        Susan Coulter
>        LANL / USRC / HPC-DES
>        Network Lead
>        (505) 412-6525
>        Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu
>        ================================
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>    ================================
>    Susan Coulter
>    LANL / USRC / HPC-DES
>    Network Lead
>    (505) 412-6525
>    Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu
>    ================================
> 
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> 
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