Jeff Squyres wrote:
David makes a good point -- I am all in favor of a hard-line deadline, but having final final final testing by COB Monday might be too early.
How's this for a compromise: On the call on Monday, people will sign up for testing of each distro. Need a minimum of 2 developers per distro. If a distro does not have 2 developers by the end of the call, it's dropped from the official 4.0 supported list. Those on the call (I won't be there; will be on an airplane -- sorry) can decide final deadlines for when testing must be complete.
Theme: let's get this puppy out the door!
A few points:
1. I'm strongly in favor of ditching MDK 9. It's waaaaay old. MDK 10 is a much better target, but only if it gets sufficient testing (I have some open questions on some of the MDK / LAM / switcher bugs).
2. Also, to clarify the "EL" situation -- we are specifically talking about AS (Advanced Server). We tried EL WS (Workstation) at IU (read: DongInn tried it), and realized that it doesn't have a bunch of the "server" packages that we need for OSCAR (Apache, MySQL, etc.). After we collectively smacked our heads "duh!" (i.e., not having all the server-side packages is the whole point of the WS distro), we finally understood a comment that Dave made a long time ago: that someone may want to have an AS head node and WS cluster nodes (WS is cheaper than AS). However, I don't think we're going to be able to support that in this release -- the cluster will have to be all AS (or Centos).
Quick comment: remember that major cluster vendors are generally using RHEL, and *not* Centos, etc.... if picking up vendor supported clusters is in your priority list, you should consider this. (of course, I wouldn't mention this if I didn't think that vendor support for OSCAR wasn't critical) That's .02.
Jeremy
3. Remember that Centos (http://www.centos.org/projects/centos) is a SRPM rebuild of RHEL (AS, I believe). So it's really the same darn thing as RHEL without the cost (and certification and RH support). So for those who don't have RHEL, Centos is a viable testing platform. Centos supports both x86 and x86_64.
On Nov 24, 2004, at 5:07 PM, Thomas Naughton wrote:
Hey,
We need to finalize the "supported distribution (arch)" list for oscar-4.0.
The following are what have been proposed/discussed but we need to have
solid (good) tests by Monday for that distro/arch to be considered
supported.
So, for any of the following list to be "supported" it must have had at
least two successful installs by different developers by Monday's (11/29)
teleconf call. Any final adjustments/tweaks will have to be completed by
5pm ET that same day (11/29) for that distro to be "supported".
Please reply to this msg with your name/oscar-rel# if you have tested this
distro/arch with the latest 4.0beta (cutting new one today 11/24).
Example:
Red Hat 9 (x86):
- Fred Flintstone / oscar-4.0b2
Fedora Core 2 (x86): - Fred Flintstone / oscar-4.0b2
Thanks, --tjn [acting RM, "give him a little responsibility ..." ;) ]
The proposed list for 4.0:
Red Hat 9 (x86): ----------------
Fedora Core 2 (x86): --------------------
Red Hat EL 3 (x86): -------------------
Red Hat EL 3 (ia64): --------------------
Mandrake 9 (x86): -----------------
Mandrake 10 (x86): ------------------
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