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

[Gray, Mark D]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniele Di Proietto [mailto:diproiettod at vmware.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2016 6:07 PM
> To: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>; Gray, Mark D <mark.d.gray at intel.com>;
> Pravin Shelar <pshelar at vmware.com>
> Cc: dev at openvswitch.org
> Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] releasing 2.6: branch Aug 1, release Sep 15
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> On 25/07/2016 09:16, "Ben Pfaff" <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
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> >On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 03:44:01PM +0000, Gray, Mark D wrote:
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> >> > -----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.
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> >> DPDK 16.07 should be released by early next week. Ciara has a patch
> >> to enable it, could this be backported to the branch?
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> >I think that Daniele and Pravin should weigh in on that since they
> >understand DPDK and its relationship to OVS much better.
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> 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

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> Thanks,
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> Daniele