[ovs-dev] releasing 2.6: branch Aug 1, release Sep 15

[Daniele Di Proietto]

On 25/07/2016 09:16, "Ben Pfaff" <blp at ovn.org> wrote:

>On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 03:44:01PM +0000, Gray, Mark D wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of Ben Pfaff
>> > Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2016 5:00 PM
>> > To: dev at openvswitch.org
>> > Subject: [ovs-dev] releasing 2.6: branch Aug 1, release Sep 15
>> > 
>> > The proposed Open vSwitch release schedule calls for branching 2.6 from
>> > master on Aug. 1, followed by a period of bug fixes and stabilization, with
>> > release on Sep. 15.  The proposed release schedule is posted here for
>> > review:
>> >         https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/650319/
>> > 
>> > I don't yet know of a reason to modify this schedule.
>> > 
>> > If you know of reasons to change it, now is an appropriate time to bring it up
>> > for discussion.  In addition, if you have features planned for 2.6 that risk
>> > hitting master somewhat late for the branch, it is also a good time to bring
>> > these up for discussion, so that we can plan to backport them to the branch
>> > early on, or to delay the branch by a few days.
>> 
>> DPDK 16.07 should be released by early next week. Ciara has a patch to
>> enable it, could this be backported to the branch?
>
>I think that Daniele and Pravin should weigh in on that since they
>understand DPDK and its relationship to OVS much better.

I think we should use DPDK 16.07 for branch-2.6.  I hope to merge the patch
before we branch, otherwise we can always backport it.

Thanks,

Daniele