meetings 09 09 2009

Rough notes from the teleconf on Sep 9, 2009:

• what do we take from PLPA and add to hwloc and how?
  • embedding / m4
  • possibly: PLPA concepts (e.g., simple query functions? need to compare and see if this is useful / not already covered in the hwloc API) -- this would be a 2nd priority
  • possibly: improve topobind documentation
    • --> need to compare to plpa-taskset notation, but probably don't need to do anything because topobind was inspired from PLPA
• renaming all functions with what prefix?
  • hwloc_ --> all public functions, symbols, enums, command line utils, etc. (trac ticket 1)
• what to put in trac wiki page?
  • discuss trac milestones vs. versions
• have a web page for the project, releases (including the old libtopology 0.9 tarballs) and mailing lists at open-mpi.org, even if nobody points to them yet
  • copy/re-theme all existing pages to www.open-mpi.org?
  • SVN: https://svn.open-mpi.org/svn/ompi-www
  • projects/hwloc/ -- just has trivial index.php right now
  • http://www.open-mpi.org/~jsquyres/www.open-mpi.org/
  • --> Jeff will take a first crack at converting the current web site
• whether the bug tracker is open to anybody or not?
  • --> DONE Jeff will ask IU if we can have an open trac / make user create an account
• whether we want a first hwloc release soon or wait for the libtopology-1.0 goals to be reached first?
  • goals for v1.0
    • missing some memory binding functions
    • provide NUMA distances between nodes
    • provide a graph of NUMA nodes
  • --> let's release hwloc 0.9.1 with few/little changes Samuel+Brice will do tarball and release stuff Jeff will do web site things to make it ready to release
  • --> then start working on 1.0 with PLPA-isms, embedding, numa things, etc.
• did INRIA send IP agreements to IU?
  • let's wait to do first release until it's signed/sent by INRIA
• Cisco blog entry announcing
  • --> Jeff will write up a first draft and send to Brice/Samuel
• code style: 2 vs 4 space tabs, whitespace, etc.
  • no real tabs -- spaces only!
• revamp README's / docs?
  • --> Jeff will improve it a bit (native english speaker, etc.)
  • --> README is generated from doxyfile docs/topology/*
• jeff items:
  • build system improvements
  • embedding m4 capabilities
  • make dist improvements (VERSION, config.*, versions of autotools, etc.)
    • --> compare to methodology listed in README.DEV
• trac
  • --> INRIA will convert TODO to trac
  • --> DONE Jeff will add "how to make svn commits effect trac" page