[ofiwg] agenda for 8/12 meeting

[Michael Blocksome]

I missed the webex meeting today and apologize if some of the following 
was already considered for the face-to-face meeting agenda. I'd like to 
discuss some of the issues related to starting a new open source project, 
how to enable concurrent development, etc. No need to address these on the 
mailing list, just something to think about at the meeting next week.

Also, I have some questions about the libfabrics implementation. 
- Are vendors expected to implement additional 'providers' as opposed to 
close-source implementation of the libfabric interface?
- If multiple libfabric implementations are allowed, how do we ensure 
compatibility (required library naming conventions, etc) to allow 
middleware to link/dlopen different libfabric libraries?

Thanks

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Open source
- license, contributor agreement, etc?
- location of top level git repositories

Development process
- commit authority
- code review (sign-off) requirements?
        -- only 'blessed" (interface) files?
        -- all files?
        -- no files - sign-off not needed?
- git merge vs git rebase
        -- development branches
- release management (branches)
        -- 'stable', 'alpha', 'beta', 'next', etc
- trac database?
        -- bug reports
        -- interface changes
- how to obtain agreement on proposed interface changes
        -- early bringup - less control
        -- more interface control needed when dependent projects are 
started (provider implementations, middleware prototypes, etc)

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Michael Blocksome
Parallel Environment MPI Middleware Team Lead, TCEM
POWER, x86, and Blue Gene HPC Messaging
blocksom at us.ibm.com
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