[Ofa_boardplus] OFA Repo and Maintainer List cleanup

[Hefty, Sean]

Arlin maintained DAPL.  ibutils came from Mellanox, I think.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ofa_boardplus [mailto:ofa_boardplus-
> bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Coulter, Susan K
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2018 10:13 AM
> To: Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>
> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at ziepe.ca>;
> ofa_boardplus at lists.openfabrics.org
> Subject: Re: [Ofa_boardplus] OFA Repo and Maintainer List cleanup
> 
> Arlin,
> Are you comfortable calling ibutils deprecated so we can get this
> ugly cruft out of the repos ?
> 
> 
> 
> 	On May 29, 2018, at 10:39 AM, Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com
> <mailto:dledford at redhat.com> > wrote:
> 
> 	On 5/29/2018 12:12 PM, Coulter, Susan K wrote:
> 
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> 
> 				So … Doug Ledford - any idea how/why this is
> still being bundled and
> 				distributed ?
> 				The build date is 2016.
> 				Yikes !
> 
> 
> 
> 			We don't drop it unless upstream deprecates it.
> There hasn't been a
> 			notice of deprecation upstream as of yet, so we
> still have it.  We will
> 			be happy to drop it from future distributions if
> upstream no longer
> 			considers it worthwhile to maintain.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 		Understood.
> 		Who has the authority and/or responsibility to call
> “deprecated” on this
> 		puppy ?
> 
> 		Can the OFA do that ?
> 
> 
> 
> 	OFA can call it's interest deprecated.  But, Arlin Davis is the
> upstream
> 	maintainer, so he can call it deprecated.  Then, if someone
> really
> 	cares, they can publicly announce they are going to take it
> over and
> 	keep up maintenance.  So, we just need Arlin to make an
> official
> 	announcement on the mailing lists and then give a little time
> for any
> 	prospective new maintainers to speak up.  If no one does, then
> we
> 	(meaning Red Hat) will consider it a deprecated library and
> remove it
> 	from our future products.
> 
> 
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