[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] OpenMPI

[Sylvestre Ledru]

-technical-board
Steve as bcc
Le 27/12/2015 18:27, Ralph Castain a écrit :
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Dec 27, 2015, at 1:55 AM, Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> Le 27/12/2015 02:05, Steve Langasek a écrit :
>>> Hi Ralph,
>>>
>>>> On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 09:59:07AM -0800, Ralph Castain wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The OMPI team has been made aware that the current OMPI version available
>>>> on Ubuntu and Debian is quite out-of-date.  I’m willing to update it if
>>>> that would be acceptable, but would need instructions on how to do so.
>>> The OpenMPI package in Ubuntu is copied unchanged from Debian.  If you
>>> believe a newer version of OpenMPI should be shipped in Ubuntu, it's best to
>>> speak first with the Debian maintainers; I've cc:ed them on this reply.
>>>
>>> I see that a new version of OpenMPI was already requested in the Debian BTS:
>>> <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=753001>.  There has been
>>> discussion there about the delays in updating to the new upstream version;
>>> perhaps you can lend some help to the maintainers in getting this update
>>> done.
>> Thanks. I used to be the main maintainer of OpenMPI. But as I changed
>> position,
>> I stopped carrying about OpenMPI.
>> However, I am still wiling to sponsor any volunteer work.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Sylvestre
>>
>>
> Hi Sylvestre
>
> I'd be willing to assume the maintaining role if that would help. Either way, please point me at the appropriate instructions and I'll provide the update 
>
The repo is here:
http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-openmpi/openmpi/trunk/
I don't know how familiar you are with Debian packaging but you should:
1) build the current version
2) try to understand how it works (fix some bugs for example)
3) update to a new version

Thanks
S