[ovs-dev] [PATCH ovn 0/3] OVN branching proposal

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Thu Feb 26 06:11:11 UTC 2015


On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:10:17PM -0800, Justin Pettit wrote:
> 
> > On Feb 25, 2015, at 9:13 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> > 
> > OVN is going to take a considerable amount of development.  I don't expect
> > its development to break existing OVS functionality, since it's going to
> > take place largely in new files and directories, but it's also not going to
> > add anything useful to OVS until there's a lot of new code.  To reduce the
> > amount of confusing noise in the OVS "master" branch, I propose that we
> > create a new branch for OVN development, called "ovn".  When there's
> > something interesting there, we can merge it back into "master".
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> 
> I think that's a great idea.
> 
> > This series is what I propose to push as the initial contents of the master
> > branch, relative to current "master".
> 
> Can I get you a review of the first patch and we push that?  I've
> started working on ovn-controller, and it will depend on
> "ovn.ovsschema".  I'm hoping to get support for at least "Bindings"
> out this week.

I'd be happy with that, sure.

> > I suggest that patches for the "ovn" branch be posted with [PATCH ovn] in
> > the subject.
> 
> Sounds good.

Great, let's do it.

I'm currently working on an expression parser component that will use
the lexer.



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