Hi, for our site, DESY, and for sites playing with the idea to deploy OpenAFS/RxOSD it would be helpful to find a notion about this project in the road map.
I understand and accept that OpenAFS/RxOSD will not appear in any 1.4.x release because it is too big a change. But I would like to see a statement that it will be integrated in 1.6 and I also would like to see a time frame for this. Several sites in the HEP community see OpenAFS/RxOSD (especially with addition of the /vicep-access stuff) as an alternative to the presently used storage systems which either aren't mountable file systems or are accessible only locally. But as long as OpenAFS/RxOSD seems to be only a private extension to OpenAFS by our site and DESY they are reluctant even to test it. Hartmut Jeffrey Altman wrote: > Felix Frank wrote: > >> There were no further objections, so that's what it now does. > > Not receiving any further comments is not the same as not receiving > objections. > > Your patch should not include the xdr_free() changes. We already have > a DELTA for those changes. It is appropriate to state that your patch > is dependent upon DELTA xdr-free-20090401 being pulled to the 1.4 branch. > > However, please note that new code such as this is not going to go on > the 1.4 branch. It is going to go onto the CVS head and incorporated > into 1.5 releases. As such, patches should be provided against the CVS > head. The 1.4 release series is "stable". What that means to most is > that the only code changes that get applied to it from release to > release are: > > * something necessary to fix a bug > > * something necessary to make the code build on a new OS revision > > * something that addresses an operational issue that affects a > large portion of the user base > > RxOSD does not meet any of these criteria. It would be nice if we > would have the 1.5 series promoted to 1.6 (aka the next "stable") > by the end of the year. > > Jeffrey Altman > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hartmut Reuter e-mail [email protected] phone +49-89-3299-1328 fax +49-89-3299-1301 RZG (Rechenzentrum Garching) web http://www.rzg.mpg.de/~hwr Computing Center of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG) and the Institut fuer Plasmaphysik (IPP) ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
