First, many of us have talked in the past about the benefit dedicated testing of the upstream kernel and rdma-core packages (as well as dependent packages, like libfabric or openmpi) would be to the community. And although people thought it was a good idea, no one stepped forward to undertake the task. So, the OpenFabrics Alliance, and by extension myself as one of the working group chairs for the FSDP Working Group, did. Many of you probably saw the announcement this week that the FSDP has reached phase I complete. That basically means that the beaker cluster is up and running and the test harness is functional. The next step, phase II, is to add a CI infrastructure into the cluster while also building out the testing repository, and then enabling that CI infrastructure on the upstream kernel repo as well as any interested user space repos. As I'm sure many of you have noticed, while I've been off doing these things, Jason has carried the burden of RDMA kernel maintenance on his own. Since adding the CI infrastructure and getting the initial tests added to the cluster will not likely provide me any more free time than I have had recently, the second announcement is that I'm going to remove my name from the list of upstream kernel maintainers on the RDMA stack and the rdma-core user space package. I suspect Jason will likely work to enlist some help to the upstream role, but I'll let him elaborate on that. I'm currently at SC21 and will send a patch to the MAINTAINERS file when I get back and have access to my kernel repo. -- Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> GPG KeyID: B826A3330E572FDD Key fingerprint = AE6B 1BDA 122B 23B4 265B 1274 B826 A333 0E57 2FDD
