[Freeipmi-devel] Re: are you available for a IRC conference now?

[Anand Babu]

,----[ Al Chu wrote: ]
| Haven't heard from anyone.  Again I'm wondering about:
`----
Getting back on track :)

,----[ Al Chu wrote: ]
| a) 0.2.2?
`----
Testing..
We will release today. Hopefully this will be the last release of
0.2.x branch.

,----
| b) timeframe for scheme -> C conversion.  Whether In particular: 16278 &
| 103662 can be handled.  And also 20 byte passwords.
`----
ipmi-sel will be ready tomorrow.
ipmi-sensors and bmc-config will take little more time. I will get a
deadline fixed for that. I want to make it for the next release of
0.3.x. 

I can't seem to find 103662. May be typo..

,----
| c) timeframe for forward port of SSIF & UDM retransmission to 0.3.X
`----
Done. Bala is committing his code. We need to test it thoroughly
though.

,----
| d) state of bugs listed in savannah.  
`----
I will close them before next 0.3.x release.

,----
| e) if garpd should be removed from FreeIPMI and put into a different
| project. (Note: this is nothing against the tool, it's an issue of
| whether something unrelated to IPMI should be in FreeIPMI.)
`----
Done. Will fork into a separate project. 

,----
| I am now leaning on putting ipmiconsole stuff into FreeIPMI.  It will be
| a sub-package though.  The libipmiconsole library would not be in
| libfreeipmi though.  It was be a separate library in the sub-package.
`----
Nice. I have been waiting long time for this library. We will
implement ipmi-sold now. It will be a multi-threaded telnet or ssh
proxy to IPMI SOL. 

If it should go as a separate library, IPMI commands should go into
libfreeipmi and console management code in to libipmiconsole.
I would have put libipmiconsole code under common.

I am now thinking of two approaches:
 * make menuconfig style top level build front-end, which lists what
  IPMI packages users needs..
 * break freeipmi into two parts and manage them as two CVS
 repositories but under freeipmi umbrella. 
   - libfreeipmi
   - freeipmi-tools

I originally had every tool as a separate repository. It was you and
Jim convinced me to make it as a single tree :)

--
Anand Babu


On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 16:16 -0700, Al Chu wrote:
> Oh, and I forgot to ask about 0.2.2.  Ready?  Yes?  No?
> 
> Al
> 
> On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 13:12 -0700, Albert Chu wrote:
> > > He is also going to commit is ipmi-sel in C. 
> > 
> > Two bugs I want to highlight during your development:
> > 
> > http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=16278
> > 
> > ipmi-sel did not output sensor triggers correctly in freeipmi 0.2.0.  I
> > fixed part of the problem.  However, due to the SDR cache not being
> > available for ipmi-sel, I could not output the actual sensor values.
> > 
> > So the SDR cache is needed for both ipmi-sensors and ipmi-sel now.  It
> > would probably be best to create a convenience library to handle all SDR
> > caching for both ipmi-sel and ipmi-sensors.
> > 
> > http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?func=detailitem&item_id=103662
> > 
> > IPMI vendors are now supporting anywhere from 1 to 5 users.  The assumed
> > 4 users method simply doesn't work anymore.  We need to determine the
> > number of users supported by the BMC at runtime and output the
> > appropriate number exactly.
> > 
> > > It will be nice if we all are conference in IRC or yahoo-im and get on
> > > same page. May be you can join from home? 
> > > Phone conference is possible only when our guys are in office. They
> > > have just left. Morning 9AM  time frame will also do. It is still
> > > convenient to be on IRC than phone.
> > 
> > I have various things scheduled for tomorrow morning.  How about Friday
> > morning?  I can IRC from home.
> > 
> > > Avati is planning to add rrd graph
> > > generation support into cerebro.
> > 
> > Cool.
> > 
> > > We feel it is a honor to have you in
> > > Gluster Core Team. Please accept our invitation.
> > 
> > Ok. 
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > Al
> > 
> > --
> > Albert Chu
> > address@hidden
> > 925-422-5311
> > Computer Scientist
> > High Performance Systems Division
> > Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Anand Babu <address@hidden>
> > Date: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 11:41 am
> > Subject: Re: are you available for a IRC conference now?
> > 
> > > 
> > > ,----[ Albert Chu wrote: ]
> > > |  I can't.  We're blocked from using IRC.
> > > `----
> > > How cruel :)
> > > 
> > > We have finally released Gluster 1.0rc2 and resources are getting
> > > freed up for GNU FreeIPMI. Bala started the SSIF and other porting
> > > work from 0.2.x to 0.3.x branch. He is also going to commit is
> > > ipmi-sel in C. 
> > > 
> > > ipmi-sensors and bmc-config in C will be done by Vikas and Harsha.
> > > 
> > > It will be nice if we all are conference in IRC or yahoo-im and get on
> > > same page. May be you can join from home? 
> > > Phone conference is possible only when our guys are in office. They
> > > have just left. Morning 9AM  time frame will also do. It is still
> > > convenient to be on IRC than phone.
> > > 
> > > If you are online at home mostly, we can also think of #freeipmi irc
> > > channel.
> > > 
> > > Another good news is, slurm, conman, pdsh, genders and cerebro are
> > > already integrated into Gluster. And we clearly call them as 
> > > "LLNL's PKG-NAME" to give due credit to LLNL. We also are planning to
> > > contribute to these tools. Avati is planning to add rrd graph
> > > generation support into cerebro. And we noticed you are involved in
> > > multiple projects. Because you have already made contribution to
> > > Gluster through these packages, We feel it is a honor to have you in
> > > Gluster Core Team. Please accept our invitation.
> > > 
> > > --
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> > > 
-- 
Albert Chu
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Computer Scientist
High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory


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