Promoting 1.9.6 to 2.0.0rc1

Hi,

As you know our last release was 2.0.0pre2 which is a snapshot of the 1.9.x
development branch, but for the next release the reason we were thinking of
going back with the version number to 1.9.6 was over time we noticed some
serious bugs - not regressions.  Also in an effort to squash those bugs
we've made a ton of changes to the core (OS kernel) compared to the year
before.

However I haven't run into any hangs or crashes (caused by OpenSSI code) in
the past couple weeks of uptime / "endurance" testing though it is by no
means any torture test.  In fact it probably is safe to say that on SMP or
with kernel preemption turned on this is doing better than OpenSSI-1.2 if
memory serves me right.

So at this point in time if we do make a release it will be 2.0.0rc1 unless
you've run into new bugs not already in our tracker.  Any comments?

After that the plan is to open 2.1 series for any new development such as
porting to the newer Linux kernels and distro's.  It is an opportunity to
migrate to Git repository too.

Speaking of which it would be nice to migrate our existing online
documentation to the wiki so that even the not so technical users are free
to contribute.  Hopefully it will also help address the issue that some bits
of good info is buried in our mailing list, but would be a plus if merged
with the existing documentation.

-Roger

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