[Hdf-forum] MPI Virtual File Driver

[Quincey Koziol]

Hi John,

On Jan 20, 2010, at 7:25 AM, Biddiscombe, John A. wrote:

> Quincey
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> >             I'm really happy that you've extended things in this direction.  As soon as we've got our policy for accepting patches and transferring IP re-done, I'll get it right over to you and we can merge your changes into the repository for the next release (1.10.0).
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> Excellent. My Pleasure. (Any idea of timeline for 1.10 – did I hear March mentioned some time ago?)

	No, definitely not March. :-)  I think we'll make it before the end of 2010, but it _could_ slip to '11...  We _have_ to get some more backward/forward features in place before the next major release and I'm not certain exactly how long those will take to implement.

> In my local git clone of the hdf5-cmake git repository, I’ve created a VFD branch, which contains the changes I’ve made for all the file driver stuff. Currently I’m manually keeping this synchronized with the hdf5-cmake branch. Once you’re happy to merge/contribute into your repository, if you’re tracking the hdf5-cmake repo, then it should be as simple as a patch from that branch to get all the changes. (I’ll see if I can push my entire branch into the public hdf5-cmake repo – not sure how to do that, but it must be possible)

	We'll need a patch that just implements this change, relative to the head of the HDF5 subversion 'trunk', so as long as you can extract that, it's not a worry to me.  Elena's working on a procedure for creating "contributed feature" branches in our subversion repository, so eventually you'll be able to migrate your patches to a subversion repository that we can run through our daily regression tests during development, etc.

	Quincey