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Open MPI developer wiki

This wiki is intended for the developers working on the internals of Open MPI itself. If you are a user or developer of MPI applications, this wiki likely doesn't have much information that is relevant for you.

Using Git and Github

Extremely common topic:

• Github CI testing (e.g., "bot:" and "/azp" commands)

Open MPI Git / Github usage:

• Initial Git setup
• Initial GitHub setup
• Open MPI's Git repositories on Github
• Open MPI Git best practices
• Using Git submodules
• How to make Git (Github) commit messages affect Github issues
• How to submit a bug or enhancement
• Pull Request best practices
• How to submit an RFC
• How bugs will be managed by the Release Managers
• How pull requests get processed by the Gatekeeper(s)
• Cheat sheet of Github emoji 👍

Generic Git information:

• Awesome flow chart on how to get out of Git messes
• "How to undo almost anything in Git"
• Visual Git cheatsheet

Development Documents

• Future - Proposed v6.0.x feature list
• Next - Proposed v5.0.x feature list
• Soon proposed v4.1.x feature list
• Old proposed v4.0.x feature list
• Are you a new developer to the Open MPI project?
• Open MPI project infrastructure
• Mailing lists used by the Open MPI development team
• Development Process
• Coding Style
• Developer Configure Options
• Using Compiler Attributes
• Development Docs
• Technical Guidelines (draft)
• MPI Conformance
• Coverity Prevent web tool guidelines
• Everything you wanted to know about linkers but were too afraid to ask
• How to write / add FAQ entries to the Open MPI web site
• The role of autogen.pl in components and frameworks
• How to add a new component to Open MPI
• How to add a new framework to Open MPI
• How to add an experimental MPI interface in Open MPI
• Guidelines for MCA / MPI_T parameter levels
• Owners of each component (i.e., owner.txt file table)
• Command Line and Envar Processing

Weekly Telecon Agendas / Meetings

• Weekly Telecons - 2021
• Weekly Telecons - 2020
• Weekly Telecons - 2019
• Weekly Telecons - 2018
• Weekly Telecons - 2017
• Weekly Telecons - 2016
• Weekly Telecons - 2015

Engineering / developer meetings

• Week of 10 Aug, 2020, Webex/Virtual
  • Meeting Minutes
• Week of 17 Feb, 2020, Portland OR
• September 19, 2019: Webex discussion affinity options
• Fall 2019 ORTE/PRRTE discussions
  • Happened in Webex; notes were not taken
• Fall 2019 meeting
  • Cancelled
• Week of Apr 21, 2019, San Jose CA
  • Cancelled
• Week of Oct 16, 2018, San Jose CA
  • Meeting Minutes - Geoff
• Week of Mar 21, 2018, Dallas, TX
  • Meeting Minutes - Geoff
• Week of Jul 11, 2017, Chicago, IL USA
  • Meeting Minutes - Geoff
• Week of Jan 23, 2017, San Jose, CA USA
  • Meeting Minutes - Geoff
• Aug 16-18, 2016, Dallas, TX USA
  • Meeting Minutes - Geoff
• Feb 22-25, 2016, Dallas, TX USA
  • Meeting Minutes - Geoff
• June 22-25, 2015, San Jose, CA USA
• January 27-29, 2015, Dallas, TX USA
• June 24-26, 2014, Chicago, IL USA
• December 12-13, 2013, Chicago, IL USA
• June 3-4, 2013, San Jose CA USA
• December 2012, San Jose CA USA
• June 6-8 2012, San Jose, CA USA
• May 3-5 2011, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
• Sep 8-10 2010, Stuttgart, Germany
• Feb 25-27 2009, Louisville, KY, USA
• Feb 11, 2009, San Jose, CA USA
• Dec 2008, Menlo Park, CA, USA
  • Meeting notes
• September 1-2 2008, Dublin, Ireland
• mid-July 2008, Louisville, KY, USA
• June-July 2008, Menlo Park, CA, USA

Open MPI Portability

• Third Party Packages in Open MPI
• General notes on writing portable code
• Escape sequences for printf()-like functions

Administrative documents

• Administrative rules

Archived wiki pages

These wiki pages are probably very out of date, but kept for posterity.

• Archived wiki pages

Archived Pull Requests

These Pull Requests did not find their way into Open MPI, and might never will, but they are kept for posterity.

• Archived PR