[ewg] RE: RHEL 5.3 and OFED 1.4.x

2009-01-22 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
In the last EWG meeting, we discussed waiting a month or so and seeing what kind of bugs were reported against 1.4 to determine if a 1.4.1 release was needed. From: general-boun...@lists.openfabrics.org [mailto:general-boun...@lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf

[ewg] RE: RHEL 5.3 and OFED 1.4.x

2009-01-22 Thread John Russo
I understand but I think that this is another consideration that should be factored in. Even if there are no "critical" PRs to fix, the introduction of RHEL 5.3 (along with less critical PRs) may be enough justification. I simply want to plant the seed in everyone's mind before our next meeting

[ewg] RE: RHEL 5.3 and OFED 1.4.x

2009-01-22 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
Good point. Thanks for bringing it up and we can discuss it at the next EWG meeting. woody -Original Message- From: John Russo [mailto:john.ru...@qlogic.com] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 12:45 PM To: Woodruff, Robert J; gene...@lists.openfabrics.org Cc: ewg@lists.openfabrics.org Su

Re: [ewg] RE: RHEL 5.3 and OFED 1.4.x

2009-01-22 Thread Steve Wise
I think releasing OMPI-1.3 with iWARP support is also good justification. And there are RDS issues with ofed-1.4 even over IB that I think will add to justification. John Russo wrote: I understand but I think that this is another consideration that should be factored in. Even if there are

RE: [ewg] RE: RHEL 5.3 and OFED 1.4.x

2009-01-22 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
. woody -Original Message- From: Steve Wise [mailto:sw...@opengridcomputing.com] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 1:46 PM To: John Russo Cc: Woodruff, Robert J; gene...@lists.openfabrics.org; ewg@lists.openfabrics.org Subject: Re: [ewg] RE: RHEL 5.3 and OFED 1.4.x I think releasing OMPI-1.3

Re: [ewg] RE: RHEL 5.3 and OFED 1.4.x

2009-01-22 Thread Steve Wise
...@lists.openfabrics.org; ewg@lists.openfabrics.org Subject: Re: [ewg] RE: RHEL 5.3 and OFED 1.4.x I think releasing OMPI-1.3 with iWARP support is also good justification. And there are RDS issues with ofed-1.4 even over IB that I think will add to justification. John Russo wrote: I

Re: [ewg] RE: RHEL 5.3 and OFED 1.4.x

2009-01-22 Thread Jeff Squyres
-Original Message- From: Steve Wise [mailto:sw...@opengridcomputing.com] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 1:46 PM To: John Russo Cc: Woodruff, Robert J; gene...@lists.openfabrics.org; ewg@lists.openfabrics.org Subject: Re: [ewg] RE: RHEL 5.3 and OFED 1.4.x I think releasing OMPI-1.3 with iWARP

RE: [ewg] RE: RHEL 5.3 and OFED 1.4.x

2009-01-22 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
...@lists.openfabrics.org; ewg@lists.openfabrics.org Subject: Re: [ewg] RE: RHEL 5.3 and OFED 1.4.x Also, FWIW, it has been discussed (and agreed, I thought) to include OMPI v1.3 in a 1.4.x release. On Jan 22, 2009, at 5:07 PM, Steve Wise wrote: > > I understand the desire to not relea

Re: [ewg] RE: RHEL 5.3 and OFED 1.4.x

2009-01-25 Thread Tziporet Koren
Woodruff, Robert J wrote: Personally I do not have a problem with including it, since MPI is an isolated component and does not effect the core stack, but I thought that we had discussed in Sonoma last year not including major new features in point releases to reduce the QA that is needed. And, i

Re: [ewg] RE: RHEL 5.3 and OFED 1.4.x

2009-01-28 Thread Doug Ledford
- > > From: Steve Wise [mailto:sw...@opengridcomputing.com] > > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 1:46 PM > > To: John Russo > > Cc: Woodruff, Robert J; gene...@lists.openfabrics.org; > > ewg@lists.openfabrics.org > > Subject: Re: [ewg] RE: RHEL 5.3 and OF

Re: [ewg] RE: RHEL 5.3 and OFED 1.4.x

2009-01-28 Thread Steve Wise
Doug Ledford wrote: On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 16:07 -0600, Steve Wise wrote: I understand the desire to not release new features in a point release, but at the same time, these features are ready or near ready now. And prior features have definitely been released in point releases. (connectX

Re: [ewg] RE: RHEL 5.3 and OFED 1.4.x

2009-01-28 Thread Doug Ledford
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 09:38 -0600, Steve Wise wrote: > Doug Ledford wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 16:07 -0600, Steve Wise wrote: > > > >> I understand the desire to not release new features in a point release, > >> but at the same time, these features are ready or near ready now. And > >>

Re: [ofa-general] Re: [ewg] RE: RHEL 5.3 and OFED 1.4.x

2009-01-29 Thread Tziporet Koren
Steve Wise wrote: One way to alleviate this is to ship both 1.2.8 and 1.3 in ofed-1.4.1 and mark 1.3 as "experimental". Then remove 1.2.8 in ofed-1.5 and make 1.3.x the production version for ofed-1.5. I suggested this in the last conf call but folks didn't like the thought of testing both