[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Request to Join Project Debian OpenMPI Team

[oliva.g at na.icar.cnr.it]

Hi all,

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 12:49:24PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 15 June 2007 at 19:26, Tilman Koschnick wrote:

I miss this last Tilman mail, I only got Dirk answer. Why?

> | On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 11:29 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> | So, the one thing we should definitely discuss with the maintainers of
> | other MPI implementations is the whole alternatives handling in detail,
> | and not just the priorities to choose. 
> 
> Fully agreed!

Great!

> | Since Zach lost interest quite a while ago, and didn't reply to my last
> | pings, I continued with his packages for my own inhouse use. I never got
> | to the stage where I could ask for an upload, though, and have switched
> | to OpenMPI in the meantime. If anyone is interested in more recent -
> | albeit a bit quick and dirty - MPICH2 packages, I can make them
> | available.
> 
> Ohhh you're right. I forgot that part. My local ones were also a hack based
> off Zach's stuff but I am not pushing that any further.

I'm intrested in maintaing mpich2. Can I do it?

> | I think MPICH2 is the one major implementation that didn't join the
> | OpenMPI group - is that right? So it might very well stay around,
> | whereas I think MPICH will be replaced by MPICH2 eventually, and LAM by
> | OpenMPI.

Right!
Cheers, 
-- 
Gennaro