[cdwg] Maintenance releaase status of 2.5/2.4

[Jones, Peter A]

Cory

I am sorry if my well-intentioned comments caused concern. I was simply
trying to reassure our customers (and potential customers) that they would
not be left high and dry if this discussion did not match their
requirements. Given that the original plan of action to produce 18 months
of 2.4.x maintenance releases was made upon a CDWG recommendation, I do
not see how this more recent discussion is any different. Intel HPDD is an
active participant in the CDWG and I certainly would not be shy to speak
up if something concerned me. We can talk about this more on the call next
week or I'd be happy to talk to you before then personally if you cannot
wait until then :-)

Regards

Peter

On 6/27/13 2:14 PM, "Cory Spitz" <spitzcor at cray.com> wrote:

>Ok, I haven't heard of any objections either.
>
>However, I'm more than a bit concerned that the CDWG may recommend that
>b2_5 become a maintenance branch, but that we aren't prepared to turn out
>releases from said branch.
>
>Peter J. said, "maintenance releases and support is at the discretion of
>the support providers" when talking about _other_ branches.  I'm not sure
>that he was implying that Intel would substitute 2.4.x for 2.5.x on the
>roadmap 
>(https://wiki.hpdd.intel.com/display/PUB/Community+Lustre+Roadmap).  Since
>Intel was putting out maintenance releases for the previous maintenance
>branch, b2_1, I think that they need to be on-board with the suggestion to
>move to b2_5.  Otherwise, the CDWG is going to have to find a way to turn
>out 2.5.x releases.
>
>Thanks,
>-Cory
>
>
>
>On 6/27/13 3:33 PM, "Christopher J. Morrone" <morrone2 at llnl.gov> wrote:
>
>>Cory,
>>
>>We will have one final discussion on the July 3rd CDWG call.  Given that
>>there have been no dissenting opinions on the mailing lists, I suspect
>>that the discussion will be short and announcements will be circulated
>>shortly after.
>>
>>So my powers of prognostication could be on the fritz, but I think it is
>>fairly safe to say "when" at this point.
>>
>>Chris
>>
>>On 06/27/2013 11:25 AM, Cory Spitz wrote:
>>> Chris,
>>>
>>> What do you mean "when we officially announceŠ"  I didn't realize that
>>>we
>>> had already decided.  Do you mean to say, "*if* we officially
>>>announceŠ"?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Cory
>>>
>>> On 6/27/13 1:13 PM, "Christopher J. Morrone" <morrone2 at llnl.gov> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bryan,
>>>>
>>>> We certainly have consensus among the small number of organizations
>>>>that
>>>> bothered to reply.  This will be on the Agenda for next Wednesday's
>>>>call.
>>>>
>>>> When we officially announce that 2.5 will be a long term maintenance
>>>> release, the we will explain that the maintenance period for 2.4 has
>>>> been shortened dramatically.  No longer should folks expect that 2.4
>>>>is
>>>> a branch that will be supported for years.  Instead its maintenance
>>>> window might be only as long as it takes to get 2.5.0 released.  But
>>>>we
>>>> haven't discussed the exact date to advertise as the cut off.
>>>>
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>> On 06/27/2013 08:01 AM, Bryan Cote wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> Did we get consensus on whether 2.5 will be a maintenance release,
>>>>>and
>>>>> if so, what is the impact on 2.4?
>>>>>
>>>>> ==Bryan
>>>>>
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