Re: rdma-core release?

[Leon Romanovsky <leon-2ukJVAZIZ/Y@public.gmane.org>]

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On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 10:47:59AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 09:31:49AM -0700, 'Christoph Hellwig' wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 09:43:08AM -0500, Steve Wise wrote:
> > > I recommend we release something for OFED-4.8 to pull in.  That
> > > might help flush out the release process earlier rather than
> > > later.  Either way, though, I want the latest libcxgb4 in OFED-4.8
> > > to support the new chelsio HW.  But we talked about the repo being
> > > "always stable", so I guess the OFA could just pull the code and
> > > use it?  Still would be nice to have it released...
> >
> > Yeah, I'd much prefer to release early, release often.  If people
> > don't feel quite comfortable with the new bundle yet we can officially
> > call it a pre-release.
>
> One of the best ways to get it tested is to get it to go through the
> full OFED process.

No problem, I'll grab all remaining patches from ML tomorrow and we will
be ready for first release.

>
> Woody, what could we do to help make that happen? Do you know of any
> blocker?
>
> I think this will be the best for everyone. I also predict that OFED
> will be under pressure to quickly take up the new drivers that will
> land in 4.9, and their user space will live in rdma-core.
>
> I also propose we give someone from the OFED team repo access and they
> can maintain a public branch for ofed-4.8 with any backported fixes.

First of them, they need to express desire :)
Let's start from pull request model and see if it is enough/not enough.

>
> Jason

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