Some captures I took in the meeting today:
(Please add more if you have)
WIKI - we have tried it and the main problem was keeping the WIKI updated. The
OFA members are not enough interested in doing it. However if OFA will found
UNH group that will do it the community will be able to support them. Jim and
Rupert will take this offline
Package:
- Easy way to get the sources only
- Provide binaries for specific OSes
- How to make sure OFED install works well with the distros ?
- Enterprise customers should take the support from Distros, and we should work
with the Distros to push all new needed features to them.
* Website:
- Provide for the open community to be able to support issue
discussion
- Installing upgrades and management are not easy
- Developing a true feedback infrastructure involves *you* the
audience
- Users questions - we can have a new reflector but need someone that will
answer the questions, and maybe users working group. Need to find a way for
pushing this.
* Quality Control: not sufficient for true 24X7
- This feedback is not clear. OFA is not providing support directly, only the
vendors and distros will provide it.
* Need monitoring and debug tools
- This comes up to business - need a lot of investment here, and no one wish to
give this for free. There are solutions that can be purchased from the vendors.
* Coordination w/ Distros/Packaging: OFED not same as distros.
Note: this is listed for completeness, but will the subject of other
meetings to be called by Bill
* Need for "soft" tools
- This is emulating HW without having the real HW (like soft-iWARP, and
SoftRoCE). Good for development - Jim will take this and see if this can be
pushed.
* Interoperability not sufficient to current needs, much less projected
- UNH testing all equipment they have. Need to make sure multi-vendor equipment
is working. Need to see what should be added to the interop program.
* Improve version control and compatibility across versions
- Need to add testing of different OFED versions (e.g. 1.5.1 with 1.5.2 etc.).
Maybe interop testing can cover this as well.
Tziporet
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