I think that up till now, there has not been any updates that have been so contentious that we needed a formal vote. I think that with most of the updates so far, there has been a general consensus to add things.
-----Original Message----- From: Jeff Squyres [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 7:39 AM To: Ryan, Jim Cc: Tziporet Koren; Woodruff, Robert J; EWG; OpenFabrics General; Pavel Shamis (Pasha) Subject: Re: [ofa-general] RE: [ewg] RFC: Do we wish to take MPI out of OFED? On Jun 16, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Ryan, Jim wrote: > Tziporet, there is some guidance on this question from the Bylaws: > > "...ARTICLE 14. MAINTENANCE OF AND MODIFICATION TO OPENFABRICS > SOFTWARE STACKS > > 14.1 Updates. By a majority vote, the Board or its designated > Working Group may at any time update an OpenFabrics software stack > for the sole purpose of making error corrections or updates (e.g. a > subnet manager change, additional driver, or operating system > release synchronization) that do not substantially alter or augment > the functionality or capabilities of an OpenFabrics software stack. > The Board or Working Group may publish such updates subject to the > terms of Article 13. > Has the XWG (or some other group) been voting on all the "updates" that have gone into OFED over the years? > 14.2 Modification. Once an OpenFabrics software stack has been > approved, published and released, any additions or alterations (but > not updates) that substantially augment (e.g. a new transport, or > operating system) the functionality and capability of such > OpenFabrics software stack shall follow the procedures for approval > of a Proposal in Article 12..." > What does "an OpenFabrics software stack" mean -- is that specific to a release series such as 1.4.x? Or does it effectively mean the entire OF stack, regardless of version? I ask because the MPI change is proposed for v1.5. Since 1.5 doesn't exist yet, is it covered by 14.1 or 14.2? -- Jeff Squyres Cisco Systems _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
