[Ofa_boardplus] OFA Repo and Maintainer List cleanup
Jason Gunthorpe
jgg at ziepe.ca
Mon May 21 12:29:33 PDT 2018
OFA should also figure out what role OFED plays now. I've said this
many times, but in my view no-one should use OFA OFED anymore. People
who do not want to use what comes with their distribution are better
served by the OFDED variation that comes from their vendor - and
realistically most people are fairly well served by what comes in the
latest version of their distro today..
Offering yet anoter choice (and arguably a less-well tested one,
compared to the vendor and distro variations) does not seem to be
serving our user community very well..
Jason
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 05:27:13PM +0000, Woodruff, Robert J wrote:
> I think we need to keep the link to the downloads for the community
> OFED packages. We can remove the other ones IMO and just point people
> to the
> github or other repos for rdma-core and libfabric, etc.
>
>
> From: Coulter, Susan K [mailto:skc at lanl.gov]
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2018 9:08 AM
> To: Davis, Arlin R <arlin.r.davis at intel.com>
> Cc: Woodruff, Robert J <robert.j.woodruff at intel.com>; Jason Gunthorpe
> <jgg at ziepe.ca>; ofa_boardplus at lists.openfabrics.org,
> <ofa_boardplus at lists.openfabrics.org>
> Subject: Re: [Ofa_boardplus] OFA Repo and Maintainer List cleanup
>
>
>
> Arlin,
>
> You mention the git repo below.
>
> That list is attached, and is different from the “Downloads” page.
>
>
> I am beginning to think we remove the Downloads page completely, and
> point people to the git repo.
>
> That git repo needs a serious clean up too.
>
> My suggestion is a sunset timeframe to motivate folks to move any valid
> repos to github.
>
>
> That is not my call, but I will propose it at the next Board meeting as
> a discussion point.
>
>
> The repo information is in the Excel spreadsheet attached.
>
> The 26 entries in the section at the top are the only ones that appear
> close to being valid.
>
> The others, I propose, we send notification about their removal, and
> then delete them.
>
>
> Again - this is a >proposal< and I am sending these lists out as a
> first wag at what might still be valid.
>
>
> Thanx.
>
>
>
> On May 18, 2018, at 2:31 AM, Davis, Arlin R
> <[1]arlin.r.davis at intel.com> wrote:
>
>
> compat-dapl can be deleted from the maintainer list:
> compat-dapl: Arlin Davis <[2]arlin.r.davis at intel.com>
> [3]http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/dapl
> git://git.openfabrics.org/~ardavis/dapl.git dat1.2
>
> From: Davis, Arlin R
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2018 1:24 AM
> To: Woodruff, Robert J <[4]robert.j.woodruff at intel.com>; Jason
> Gunthorpe
> <[5]jgg at ziepe.ca>; Coulter, Susan K <[6]skc at lanl.gov>
> Cc: [7]ofa_boardplus at lists.openfabrics.org,
> <[8]ofa_boardplus at lists.openfabrics.org>
> Subject: RE: [Ofa_boardplus] OFA Repo and Maintainer List cleanup
> Yes, we do have to provide support for Intel MPI and Xeon Phi
> Co-Processor
> for a couple more years. IBM DB2 PureScale is also a consumer of
> DAPL,
> mainly because of the OS agnostic RDMA interfaces.
> -arlin
>
> There is not much addition work (other than bug fixes) is being done
> on DAPL, but it is still used by the shipping version of Intel MPI,
> so
> we still need the repo for now.
> Longer term, the next version of Intel MPI for 2019 is based on OFI
> and I am not sure if anything else is actually using DAPL, so longer
> term, Jason is right that it will stop being relevant in a couple of
> years.
> +Arlin, DAPL maintainer in case he wants to comment.
> Woody
> From: Ofa_boardplus
> [[9]mailto:ofa_boardplus-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org]
> On Behalf Of Jason Gunthorpe
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2018 12:24 PM
> To: Coulter, Susan K <[10]skc at lanl.gov>
> Cc: [11]ofa_boardplus at lists.openfabrics.org,
> <[12]ofa_boardplus at lists.openfabrics.org>
> Subject: Re: [Ofa_boardplus] OFA Repo and Maintainer List cleanup
> 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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> Network Lead
> (505) 412-6525
> Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu
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>
> References
>
> 1. mailto:arlin.r.davis at intel.com
> 2. mailto:arlin.r.davis at intel.com
> 3. http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/dapl
> 4. mailto:robert.j.woodruff at intel.com
> 5. mailto:jgg at ziepe.ca
> 6. mailto:skc at lanl.gov
> 7. mailto:ofa_boardplus at lists.openfabrics.org
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