Re: [OMPI devel] 1.5.x plans

2010-11-01 Thread Joshua Hursey
I think bringing the large changes from the trunk via patches in the CMR style is a non-starter, so I am glad that none of the options include this. So I am for any of the options proposed. I would just like the development branch (whether it be v1.5.X or v1.7) to be released more often. The or

Re: [OMPI devel] 1.5.x plans

2010-10-30 Thread Shamis, Pavel
IMHO "B" will require a lot of attention from all developers/vendors, as well it maybe quite time consuming task (btw, I think it is q couple of openib btl changes that aren't on the list). So probably it will be good to ask all btl (or other modules/features) maintainers directly. Personally I

Re: [OMPI devel] 1.5.x plans

2010-10-27 Thread Barrett, Brian W
On Oct 27, 2010, at 9:14 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote: > On Oct 26, 2010, at 5:52 PM, Barrett, Brian W wrote: > >>> B. Sync the trunk to the 1.5 branch en masse. Stabilize that and call it >>> 1.5.2. >>> >>> Most people (including me) favored B. Rich was a little concerned that B >>> spent too muc

Re: [OMPI devel] 1.5.x plans

2010-10-27 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Oct 26, 2010, at 5:52 PM, Barrett, Brian W wrote: >> B. Sync the trunk to the 1.5 branch en masse. Stabilize that and call it >> 1.5.2. >> >> Most people (including me) favored B. Rich was a little concerned that B >> spent too much time on maintenance/logistics when we could just be movi

Re: [OMPI devel] 1.5.x plans

2010-10-27 Thread Ralph Castain
On Oct 26, 2010, at 3:52 PM, Barrett, Brian W wrote: > On Oct 26, 2010, at 3:07 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote: > >> There seem to be 3 obvious options about moving forward (all assume that we >> do 1.5.1 as described above): >> >> A. End the 1.5 line (i.e., work towards transitioning it to 1.6), and

Re: [OMPI devel] 1.5.x plans

2010-10-26 Thread Barrett, Brian W
On Oct 26, 2010, at 3:07 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote: > There seem to be 3 obvious options about moving forward (all assume that we > do 1.5.1 as described above): > > A. End the 1.5 line (i.e., work towards transitioning it to 1.6), and then > re-branch the trunk to be v1.7. > B. Sync the trunk

[OMPI devel] 1.5.x plans

2010-10-26 Thread Jeff Squyres
On the teleconf today, two important topics were discussed about the 1.5.x series: - 1. I outlined my plan for a "small" 1.5.1 release. It is intended to fix a small number of compilation and portability issues. Everyone seemed to think that this was an ok idea. I have done some tomfool