[Ofa_boardplus] OFA Repo and Maintainer List cleanup

[Bernard Metzler]

Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at ziepe.ca> wrote on 05/25/2018 16:57:25:

> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at ziepe.ca>
> To: Bernard Metzler <BMT at zurich.ibm.com>
> Cc: "Davis, Arlin R" <arlin.r.davis at intel.com>,
> "ofa_boardplus at lists.openfabrics.org, "
> <ofa_boardplus at lists.openfabrics.org>, "Coulter, Susan K" <skc at lanl.gov>
> Date: 05/25/2018 16:57
> Subject: Re: [Ofa_boardplus] OFA Repo and Maintainer List cleanup
>
> On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 03:04:43PM +0200, Bernard Metzler wrote:
>
> >    > It would be useful to know if IBM is still using DAPL.
> >    >
> >    > Bernard can you find out?
> >    >
> >    So, yes, DB2 PureScale still uses it, and currently relies on it. So
> >    IBM will find a solution to live without it, when uDAPL goes
> >    away.
>
> Okay, are they aware that the current maintainers are likely to
> completely stop maintaining it in a year or two? And they should be
> thinking about their next steps, and/or if the wish to become the
> maintainers for it?
>

There is no plan for having IBM maintaining it.

Currently IBM takes RDMA support from SLES and RHEL. So the
question is when those distros will stop supporting it (that is,
when they will remove it). Or if the distros support it even longer.
IBM will talk to SLES and RHEL to find that out.


Thanks for pointing at that!

Bernard.
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