Hi Bryan, I am a little concerned about the release timeline. It looks like the GA date is May 08. If I remember correctly the SLES 10 release date is before that. And it looks a little late for the RH release plan as well. We need to make sure that the distributions could use this release. Of course I can not comment on their behalf but it is curtail that we get their approval to the schedule.
Thanks, Gali -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryan O'Sullivan Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 3:45 AM To: openib-general Subject: [openib-general] Towards a 1.0 release of OpenIB Here's a strawman proposal for a 1.0 release process. Please let me know what you think. I have a set of absolutely minimal goals for the 1.0 release, and I would like to open up a short period of wider discussion about those goals. Expectation management: * The process is open and transparent. Discussion happens on openib-general. Bugs go into Bugzilla. Documentation lives in the wiki. Changes are made in Subversion. There should be no way someone can step up after the fact and say "but I wasn't informed of the plan!" * The target user population is reasonably savvy early adopters. * For everything that we commit to shipping, we must be able to tell users what has been tested, how heavily, and on what hardware. Testing: * We need to know what tests people can run, and in what environments. * We would like everyone to be able to run the same tests, so someone must gather test suites and execution instructions together. Methods of delivery: * A branch of the Subversion repository. * A set of source tarballs. * A collection of binary packages. We need to identify distros that people are interested in, and distros that people have time and resources to build for. Milestone timeline: * Feb 24 - create 1.0 release branch in Subversion repository * Feb 28 - close of "what I want in the 1.0 release" discussion * Feb 28 - Bugzilla configured properly * Mar 03 - wiki contains actual data about test suites, who's running what, status, etc. * Mar 06 - rc1 snapshot and source tarballs available * Mar 27 - rc2 * Apr 17 - rc3 * May 08 - 1.0 Within the next week, I'd like to gain an understanding of the following things: * Which features users want to see tested * Who can sign up to test and maintain those features, and how * Which distros users want binary packages for * Who can sign up to build and test those packages * Whether we need to be building binary kernel packages to make testing more consistent * Which patches or features need to be pushed to the upstream kernel (I'd prefer an unpatched kernel.org 2.6.17 to just work with the 1.0 userspace, for example) _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
