Or, Jeff, Roland, The EWG is NOT the right list for general enquiries and help for users and potential users of OpenFabrics software to get answers from the Openfabrics Community as a whole be it about OFED, WinOF any of the upper level protocols, iWARP, performance, etc. etc.
I always thought "general" was the wrong name for the original list, even when we set it up, for what the original general list was used for - it should have been "OF-Linux Dev@" or something like that. But at the time those involved insisted there should be just one list for everything - later we found that did not work for the Alliance with all its activities. So now we have a Linux developers mail-list that has nothing in the name that links it to OpenFabrics - was that deliberate? With Microsoft joining the Alliance and Sun porting OFA verbs and ULPs to Solaris, we have to recognize that there may become a world wide significant community that is not a Linux community using Openfabrics software. Also as the use of OFA code including the Upper level services like iSCSI, RDS, NFS, be it with Linux, Solaris or Windows grows the need to provide a mechanism for general inquires and help will grow also. The EWG list is for the work of developers, maintainers, testers of the OFED Linux distribution in preparing testing and releasing next releases/versions of OFED. I think OpenFabrics-General is precisely a good name for the list that I think we need. Comments please? Bill. Bill Boas VP, Bus Dev System Fabric Works Exec Dir. OpenFabrics Alliance 510-375-8840 [email protected] www.systemfabricworks.com [email protected] www.openfabrics.org -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Becker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 9:55 AM To: Or Gerlitz Cc: [email protected]; 'Vladimir Sokolovsky'; 'Sujal Das'; 'Jeffrey Scott'; OpenFabrics EWG Subject: Re: [Fwd: FW: OFED installation question re-AltLinux] Or Gerlitz wrote: > Bill Boas wrote: > >> Jeff, Please re-open openfabrics-general just as you describe. Tell the developers on the linux-rdma list that we'd like them to subscribe, and that we may from time to time forward an email to their list if we think it is >> appropriate. >> > Bill, > > I don't see any reason to revive the general list, it served the > developer community and now migrated to some other place. The question > raised in this thread and its like has nothing to do with development > and hence matches the ewg list. > This makes sense. Although it seems like we should have a more descriptive statement about ewg on the mail lists web page, so folks know this is where to ask questions about OFED usage. Any takers? Thanks. -jeff > On top of that, the decisions on the mailing list definition / location > / move was never taken by a single individual sending an email to > another individual, but rather taken through a discussion in a work > group or over email. If you want to open/revive a mailing list, please > bring it somewhere and not over a private thread. BTW - some months ago > ofa opened bunch of "user mailing lists" without a single email sent > over them, so we already have too many mailing lists, aren't we? > > > > Or. > > _______________________________________________ ewg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg
