[Twg] [Rpwg] Ideas for consideration

[David Dillow]

On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 10:06 -0500, James A Simmons wrote:
> 
> > 1)  Create a branch named "2.0.59.0-opensfs" on github, which is based
> > at Oracle's 2.0.59.0 tag.  This is a "pre-release" version on the
> > branch that will be tagged 2.1 by Oracle in the next few months.
> 
> Or we could use 
> 
> https://github.com/rread/lustre
> 
> We should avoid having multiple lustre branches on github.

I disagree -- there should be a canonical OpenSFS source, independent of
a particular person's tree. The beauty of git is its ability to pull
from multiple trees and handle many branches.

You have a point considering customer confusion, but I think that is
solved by prominent linking to the "blessed" tree -- just as in the
kernel, there is one main tree, and people can do their development in
their own, possibly public, trees.


> > 2)  We create a "opensfs-devel" mailing list, where Lustre developers
> > and testers can communicate and coordinate their efforts.
> 
> Yes please do. My experince is that this list usually becomes the main
> list where everyone post to. We talked about having one main mailing
> list before. This could easily fill in that gap.

I like the idea of open mailing lists, but I thought the idea was that
we'd use lustre-devel as long is it remained viable? Given the rumblings
it may make sense to open our own, but I worry about fragmenting the
community. Look at OFA's ewg vs linux-rdma vs linux-kernel vs linux-scsi
vs netdev. I have to be on three -- four for SRP and IPoIB -- to be
reasonably sure I'm not missing relevant discussions. 

> > 3)  When we discover bugs, we can initially use github's built-in
> > issue tracking, or just use bugzilla.lustre.org, and agree to make all
> > OpenSFS bugs dependants of a master OpenSFS tracking bug.  The
> > developers can work out the details amongst themselves on
> > opensfs-devel.
> 
> The hope is only one bugzilla will exist for lustre. If the bugzilla
> goes away at oracle then we use the github issue tracker. If not someone
> can easily create a OpenSFS ticket at bugzilla.lustre.org. ORNL as well
> as livermore have their own trackers already there.

As long as bugzilla.lustre.org remains alive, that is viable.

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Dave Dillow
National Center for Computational Science
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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